KUCHING: Nine former beauty queens will turn fund-raisers to help the less fortunate.
They have teamed up with Alaric’s Production Company, an international beauty pageant organiser, to co-host the Miss Cheongsam Charity pageant here on Sept 4. The beauty queens include five former Miss Cheongsam title holders &ndash Peggi Tsai (1991), Anna Sze (1994), Christina Chai (1996), Yeo Ai Fang (2001) and Lu Ting Joo (2002). The other four are former Miss Cheongsam runners-up Saman-tha Kho, Candy Ong, Elaine Yeo and Shirley Su. Alaric’s Production event consultant and organiser Alaric Soh said the former beauty queens had mooted the idea of helping the needy by raising money for charitable bodies, welfare homes and educational bodies. “We have targeted to raise at least RM30,000,” he told reporters at the Riverside Majestic Hotel yesterday. Soh, the organiser of the Miss Tourism International pageant, said the former beauty queens would also help to choreograph the pageant and groom the 18 finalists.
The organisers are inviting single Sarawakian Chinese aged between 17 and 24 with a heart of gold to join the pageant. Entry closes on July 15.