The Merdeka Cool as well as Committed Malaysians stories continue with Volunteer Extraordinaire, Wong Ee Lynn.
A lawyerby profession(well, there have been still good lawyers out there), Ee Lynn started volunteering with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in 1996. She proposed off with assisting to wash as well as husband animals, scheming food, cleaning kennels, washing food as well as water bowls, aiding in fundraising as well as overdo activities, illustrating posters, drafting articles as well as letters, administering remedy as well as attending to visitors as well as adopters. She still volunteers during SPCA right away (a comparison proffer mah now) though her responsibilities have increasing to embody drafting as well as reviewing documents as well as correspondence, aiding the Inspectorate, organising events as well as fundraisers, training brand new volunteers as well as enchanting in policy as well as advocacy work.
Ee Lynn is additionally the part of of Malaysian Nature Society which she joined in 2000/2001. She commenced volunteering upon the day she sealed up. In 2006, she established the brand new Special Interest Group calledGreen Living. At the same time, she additionally proposed the family-based programme called Eco Kids, which has its own monthly mainstay in the newsletter as well as periodic inlet camps as well as outings. Today, Ee Lynn continues to coordinate Green Living as well as Eco Kids as well as is additionally the cabinet part of for the Selangor MNS Branch, whereher duties embody policy, advocacy, preparation as well as overdo work. You can check out Green Living's blog here.
In 2006, Ee Lynn proposed Project Second Chance, the personal animal rescue beginning to rescue, rehabilitate, neuter as well as rehome exposed animals. Project Second Chance rescues as well as rehomes an normal of 20-30 animals (any monyets?) the year as well as additionally assists in the neutering of travel cats as well as the companion animals of low-income individuals.
Ee Lynn additionally does voluntary work during the Bar Council Legal Aid Centre Kuala Lumpur both in the advocacy as well as policy programme in cooperation with PT Foundation Malaysia as well as as the proffer counsel in industrial relations matters.
To boggle the minds, she additionally volunteers for assorted alternative causes including for the Bentong Farm Sanctuary (an animal sanctuary), Kelab Alami Tanjung Kupang (an environmental preparation grassroots organization for the coastal community), Waterfall Survivors as well as Sampah Masyarakat (both facebook groups doing cleanup as well as environmental recognition campaigns).
She has proposed volunteering during Zoo Negara Malaysia this year. Her self-assurance : to have the world class zoo, we need to be the world class society, as well as which it begins with we as well as me. She says which the work during the zoo helps her rise brand new skills in doing as well as caring for wildlife as well as enables her to conclude the hurdles involved in using the captive wildlife facility, nonetheless like most animal rights activists, she believes wildlife should not be kept in zoos as well as entertainment pa! rks in t he initial place.
When asked because she does so much voluntary work, this Volunteer Extraordinaire says "volunteers perform the valuable village service which has economic worth. we have regularly believed which if governments as well as public bodies had to pay wages for the service which is rendered by volunteers, the manage to buy could really possibly collapse overnight". Ee Lynn additionally says which volunteering exposes volunteers to the far-reaching operation of experiences, people as well as situations which they would not usually confront in their every day work. These practice help them rise their capacity to cope with crises, difficult as well as frustrating situations, as well as sense how to manage time, people as well as (often really limited) resources to the best of ther ability. It additionally helps rise perseverance, commitment as well as resilience, qualities which would stand the single in good stead in life. Finally, volunteering empowers we tobe the disproportion we want to see.
Outside of volunteering as well as animal care work, her interests embody football, skateboarding, cartooning as well as writing Letters to the Editor (although she has nonetheless to write rigourously to the Planet of the Monyets). we consternation where she finds time to cari makan.
Monyet King as well as all the inhabitants of the Planet of the Monyets salute Wong Ee Lynn for her selfless work assisting poor animals, safeguarding the sourroundings as well as assisting marginalised Malaysians. It is people like her which make the country great. we goal those of we reading this article, have been desirous by her work for assorted honourable c! auses a s well as which we too will proffer for causes which have been tighten to your heart. You can, of course, hit Ee Lynn (I won't give out her series here though she is upon Facebook)
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