Philanthropy
Giving that starts where it’s needed most.
Each year, Benjamin Wey leads efforts to support hundreds of underprivileged children at a rural school in China’s Hebei province.
The School
The only K–12 school for three square kilometers.
In a farming village in China’s rural Hebei province stands the only K–12 school within three square kilometers. Its students are orphans and the children of farm families — kids with ability and ambition, born far from opportunity.
Each year, Benjamin Wey leads efforts to provide financial and other charitable assistance to hundreds of these children, making a direct and practical difference in their education and their lives.
“No matter what happens, the sun is always up the next day.”
Benjamin Wey
Why He Gives
A debt paid forward.
Benjamin Wey’s own story began with a gift: a full scholarship that carried a young man from Beijing to an American university with $62 in his pocket. He has never treated that beginning as a private stroke of luck. He treats it as a debt — one he pays forward, year after year, to children whose circumstances look like his once did.
The giving is deliberately concentrated. Rather than spreading resources thin, the focus stays on one school and its students, where sustained support compounds: a child helped in first grade is still being helped in tenth.
For Benjamin, giving back is not a footnote to a business career. It is the reason for one.