May 21, 2009 | Read Time: 2 minutes
On a trip to Cambodia in the early 1990s to shoot the famous Angkor temples, the photographer Kenro Izu watched an impoverished child die in her father’s arms because the government-run medical facilities in the little girl’s village, Siem Reap, were inadequate to save her.
Mr. Izu vowed to do something to help the people of Siem Reap, and with the money he made from his photographs, and the help of friends, he established Friends Without a Border, through which he raised money to open the Angkor Hospital for Children.
Today the hospital’s 230 doctors and nurses help poor children and their families who otherwise would not have access to medical care, and has become Cambodia’s main pediatric teaching hospital.
The story of how Mr. Izu’s act of philanthropy produced monumental results is one of many that Town & Country magazine chronicles in its annual philanthropy issue (June).
Also included in the issue is an article that showcases the work of Dina Habib Powell, Jennifer Buffett, and Kayrita Anderson, three women who are using their wealth, business acumen, and life experience to help women and girls throughout the world.
Ms. Habib Powell was tapped by Goldman Sachs to run 10,000 Women, the New York finance giant’s program to provide a business education to 10,000 disadvantaged women across the globe.
Ms. Buffett and her husband, Peter (the son of the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett), are harnessing the $1-billion the elder Mr. Buffett donated to the couple’s NoVo Foundation in 2006 to help women and girls in America and in developing countries.
A woman who raised herself up out of a hard childhood, Ms. Anderson has given her time and, along with her husband, Harold, more than $2-million through their Harold and Kayrita Anderson Family Foundation for efforts to end child prostitution in the state of Georgia.
