[2][3][4] The foundation chairperson Tay Za began his career in the 1980s and started Htoo Group in the early 1990s to extract timber from Burma's forests.
[8] Foundation was also assisted in peace process by donating rice bags, tube wells, and cash to IDP camps of Kachin State.
[13][14] The foundation's parent Htoo Group of Companies has been involved in massive timber extraction projects and continuously seeking extensive logging contracts from Myanmar government.
According to The Irrawaddy, in Kachin State alone, Tay Za has been granted a 100,000-acre (40,000 hectare) logging concession by the government that would allow him to cut down vast swathes of valuable, pristine teak forest.
[16] In 2014, the Foundation won the 2014 National Best Social Welfare Team award though its parent company pays substantially low taxes.