“That’s kind of my family that I take to their family. Every year, Dung takes her dogs to the organization’s Christmas parties so the kids can play with them.

Here, she gets to combine two of her loves: her dogs and giving back. “When you’re going through something like that in your life, you can’t put a price on the kind of support the Ronald McDonald House Charities provides,” she says. The organization provides a home for families who have seriously ill children who need medical care on O‘ahu. Dung has been involved with the nonprofit for “Basically, we’ve taken the mission of The Salvation Army and we’ve instigated a younger generation to get involved and just show the importance of giving back, volunteerism and serving,” she says, adding that she encourages people who’d like to get involved to visit /hawaii_2/echelon/.Īnother organization that’s dear to her heart is Ronald McDonald House Charities. The group has also fed the homeless, distributed food to underserved communities, donated school supplies to students in need and gone to school campuses to help clean them up. “We’ve done things like a CEO sleep-out at the state Capitol to raise awareness for homelessness,” Dung says. She is a founding member of Echelon, a group of young professionals and leaders who support the Salvation Army and the community. It’s that positivity and desire to surround herself with like-minded people that led Dung to one of many philanthropic groups she works with. (Her film credits include 50 First Dates, Go For Broke and Netflix’s The Wrong Missy.) She’s taken the stage for several shows, including The Producers (2009), The Princess and The Iso Peanut (2010) and Lisa Matsumoto’s Anniversary Show (2012). “I loved the people who are in that (world) and I feel that they are so positive and happy and full of energy, so I felt really at home in that environment.” Dung, dog Shiloh and mom Annette attend a former Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawai‘i’s Christmas party.

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