Helping Angels
A global Facebook group to recruit volunteers to do welfare work founded by Poesy Liang on August 30, 2007 - a day before Malaysia's 50th Year Independence Day. All activities are funded privately and the group does not handle any form of public collection. The objectives of the group is to motivate career professionals to use their wisdom, influence, skills and time resources to help others. The group seeks to promote the donation of time and efforts, placing least importance to the giving in material and monetary sponsorship. Activities cover welfare of the underprivileged, education, homeless, old aged, Animal Rescue and rehoming, and life-coaching.
"We serve to help those in need. By helping others, our lives are in turn enhanced."
Activities
Through angel work, volunteers will work on their enhanced awareness through a steepened learning growth. Angel members are encouraged to identify opportunities to help others by exercising their professional creativity - with simplified processes that is practical and effective. While activities are being carried out, the subtle objective is to recognise the joy that can be derived from the act of selflessness. In this way the movement is also to plant the habit of goodness into the society around us, where people can start to generate positivity in their daily affairs - habituating generosity and compassion, with the study and application of wisdom.
Thursday tutoring program
A Helping Angels program since September 27, 2007 covering Precious Children's Home, Trinity Children Centre and Precious Youth Centre. Every Thursday evenings, 3 groups of Kuala Lumpur Klang Valley volunteering-members will clock in to give academic aid to the residents of these welfare homes.
Poesy's World
A private online magazine where the memberships are by invitation only. Here the author Poesy Liang writes daily since 1999. In 2005, the author closed the site to public viewing. Since Poesy's World shut its' doors to new registration, many existing memberships were also discontinued. In 2007 Helping Angels was created in its' place for Poesy's World readers.
Sources
i. Online group finds a way to give back to the community by Tan Ju Eng
ii. More about Poesy
iii. Googled results of Poesy's news
iv. Report from a participant of the Young Leadership International
v. SK-II Nona TV3 Interview of Poesy Liang, Founder of Helping Angels
vi. Helping Angels Official Website, Work in Progress
vii. Helping Angels Facebook Group
viii. The Star March 14, 2008 Interview
ix. The Girl Who Just Wouldn't Give Up
x. Lending A Helping Hand
xi. Info on Precious Children's Home
xii. Info on Trinity Children Centre
xiii. Poesy's World