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Magsaysay awardee donates prize money
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A philanthropist and vegetable vendor who was one of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award
recipients donated her $50,000 prize money to a hospital in Taipei so it can build an intensive care
unit.
Vegetable vendor and philanthropist Chen Shu-chu gave the donation Monday to Mackay Memorial
Hospital in Taipei to help it build an ICU in its Taitung branch, Taiwan's Central News Agency
reported.
The CNA report quoted Chen as saying her mother
died 50 years ago because she was not admitted
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Besides, she said she does not need so much
money, and the prize was like "a gift from the
heaven" to be shared with others.
Construction of the ICU had started last April. It
costs about NT$1 billion (US$33.5 million), and
some NT$200 million have to be raised from the
public, the report said.
Ramon Magsaysay 2012 awardees with Philippine
President Benigno Aquino III (fourth from left) at
the the awarding rites Friday: (from left) Ambrosius
Ruwindrijarto of Indonesia,Yang Saing Koma from
Cambodia, Syede Rizwana Hasan of Bangladesh,
Kulandei Francis of India; Romulo Davide from the
Philippines, and Chen Shu-Jui from Taiwan.
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Last Aug. 31, Chen received the prize money along with the Ramon Magsaysay Award, considered
the "Nobel Prize of Asia," in Manila.
A frugal person, Chen lives simply in Taitung County and gives away her income to help others, the
report said.
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She has donated some NT$10 million (US$333,874) for the education of local children.
The CNA report also said the hospital is grateful to Chen for the donation and for understanding the
situation.
For her part, Chen said she wants to save as much money as possible so she can make more
donations.
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The report said Chen also met Monday with Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in the Presidential
Office, where Ma told her that "the story of what you have done is more influential than any textbook
and any school course."
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"It is very remarkable," Ma told her, adding that if more people would be devoted to charity like her,
many more people will receive care. –KG, GMA News
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