page_title: Zaw Zaw
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Zaw Zaw / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: Zaw Zaw donated ten thousand balls to Union Minister of Education, Dr Myo Thein Gyi.
context_page_description: Zaw Zaw is a Burmese business magnate, banker, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Max Myanmar Group of Companies, a major conglomerate. Zaw Zaw is currently serving as the president of the Myanmar Football Federation since 2005, and vice president of ASEAN Football Federation and Asian Football Confederation.
context_section_description: Zaw Zaw is an active philanthropist, and is involved in causes including healthcare, education, disaster response and youth development. In 2011, he constructed 550-bedded Yankin Children's Hospital worth Kyats 9 billion ($10 million) and transferred the hospital ownership to the Ministry of Health to be used as a tertiary paediatric hospital in Yangon as well as a teaching hospital of University of Medicine 2, Yangon.
  He continuously provided funds to the hundreds of patients with Congenital heart disease (CHD) through his foundation who are in real need of such donation and support for required surgery.
  In 2017, he donated Kyats 2.33 billion ($1.7 million) in Rakhine State through his Ayeyarwady Foundation. His foundation also provides free medical treatments to the under-privileged children in Yankin Children's Hospital.
  He donated ten thousand balls to the Football for Schools Programme.
  He consistently contributed for COVID-19. He supported MMK 100 millions worth medical aids for Waibagi Hospital and Yankin Children's Hospital and provided facility quarantines for more than 350 people.  He also funded 500 Million MMK worth of Health Insurance Benefit for Caregivers and provided accommodation, daily meals and transportation services ferrying the doctors and nurses from Waibargi Hospital, who are facing the difficulties of commuting and lodgings. 
  He has contributed over US$2.2 million (3 billion kyats) to Myanmar’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak since March.
caption: Zaw Zaw donated ten thousand balls to Union Minister of Education, Dr Myo Thein Gyi.
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