Celebrity Calendar Girls For Charity
IF every celebrity in the world donates a portion of their monthly earnings to charity, the global poverty rate will be greatly reduced. Unfortunately, this only remains as a dream. Perhaps celebrities are too busy with their careers to think about non-profit ventures. And not every celebrity has a heart for charity, unlike Gillian Anderson, Lance Armstrong, and even Princess Diana. I've always wished that my favourite singer, Wang Lee Hom, would eventually dedicate his career to charity as well. But there's nothing that I can do but wait until he decides to make a bigger difference.
As for Malaysia, the chances of any celebrity turning charitable over here is even way slimmer, because our own entertainment arena is much more competitive. But not all is lost. Just recently, two of Malaysia's hot celebrities have decided to be charitable with their fame. Celebrity models and TV hosts, twins Teh May Wan and Choy Wan, co-produced a calendar with their photos gracing its pages. At the back of every month's page will be more information about Systematic Lupus Erythematosus. The cause is inspired by the celebrities' mother who is a sufferer of the SLE.
Being charitable is not a hard thing to do at all. It all begins with a single decision. After all, May Wan has a degree in arts and her boyfriend is in publishing. Choy Wan has the same degree but also one for communications. Choy Wan says they drew up a business plan and she looked for sponsors and managed to get them.
These all sounds so fun to me. Wish I could part of their bandwagon! You can read up more about this project over here.
Comments
Yvonne, the U.N. report says that the annual income of the 500 richest people in the world exceeds that of the poorest 460 million people in the world.
But I believe most of them do donate to charity, for tax, for image, for love.
Posted by: totoro | September 22, 2005 10:59 AM
It's a good thing that they donate to charity. But I wonder why there's not much changes made. Is it because they don't put their hearts to it?
Posted by: Yvonne Foong | September 22, 2005 11:05 AM
Can you define changes? The world will never be perfect - i.e. a situation where there would not be needful cases. Maybe in some situations this is the fault of some of the needy themselves..
As for celebrities donating to charity - well, we all can ourselves as well. Xian to say someone ELSE should be donating if we ourselves do not - even if they earn many more times our earnings.
Posted by: IB | September 22, 2005 11:30 AM
Hello IB. I mean changes for the better. Changes are capable of making things better, and they do not have to end up perfect. Therefore, the impossibility of this world becoming perfect shouldn't be the reason for us not to strive for changes, or even write about it, in this case.
As for the celebrity part, I agree with you that everyone of us have the responsibility for charity. This post is about cewlebrities Teh May Wan and Choy Wan doing something charitable. But it doesn't mean to say only celebrities have the responsibility.
Posted by: Yvonne Foong | September 22, 2005 12:19 PM