eHomemakers - Helping People Help Themselves

We are South East Asia's only community network that promotes work life balance, teleworking and the running of SOHO businesses through the use of information and communications technology. Our e-community promotes self-help, business partnerships, entrepreneurship development and green living. Our social profit is derived from a pro-poor project to help women help themselves.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Flexi Work
Looking for a job that gives you the flexibility of being with your family? Check it out here.

Join eHomemakers' Team
Be part of our social media team, blog, craft green pledges and move green living to the e-community, help disadvantaged women through mentoring. Help others and you will help yourself. Be a volunteer. Dedicated volunteers will be credited, and given opportunity to attend conferences or events on a complimentary basis. A great opportunity for people who want to reinvent themselves. Give and you shall receive. Those interested please contact: manager@ehomemakers.net

Flexi Income Through Eco-Basket Project
eHomemakers is looking for members to help market ecobaskets to the corporates for the pro-poor project at www.justmarketing.info. 25% of sales will be your commission, donated by a benefactor to help with the marketing. We are looking for someone who has a golden heart to help others who are less fortunate. Do email us at manager@ehomemakers.net.

Portraits of Perseverance - Jenny Pong
Help Pong Seow Chin, a woman of perseverance in Ipoh who has spent more than 25 years laying belly-down on a wooden trolley. Read up on her story. Volunteer to take her to hospital daily, help her to purchase daily needs or make her a special meal. We need kind-hearted members to give her a cheer as she has just lost her mother who took care of her for 25 years.
Being disabled does not stop Jenny Pong from making a living. Watch a video on how Pong moves about daily. Also watch how amazingly she manages her life in this video.

Free Advisory Program
Do you have a business in mind? Need help and guidance in the planning and implementation of your strategies in becoming a successful entrepreneur? Here is the place where you can get all your answers for FREE!

Group Purchase Survey
Calling all ehomemakers members to fill in our group purchase survey form so that we can approach companies for group purchase.

The Green Pledge
This is a plea for our environment. Save paper. Save plastic bags. Spare a thought for those poor sharks. Please consider the environment before lavishing ourselves with natures treasures. Join us in our pledges to protect the environment!

'Portraits Of Perseverance' Video Project
After one year of intensive labours by a team of interns and volunteers, the Portraits of Perseverance multimedia project is finally fruiting. Watch the teaser for the documentary. Join us in Facebook. The four women portrayed in the documentary made a quilt in January at the Crown Plaza Hotel. Watch their video journals, tracked for one year, Lucy, Pong, Nisha, Sulastri.

300 Free SMS Per Month
eHomemakers is looking for 20 homepreneurs or small business owners to test use DWMA, the integrated ICT platform for organizing buyers/producers and groups of people who are mobile. Each user will be given 300 free SMS/m for a year, additional is chargeable at 0.15 cent/ for 2-way SMS (ie, 0.075/one way SMS). Those interested please contact: 'manager@ehomemakers.net'.

Our Gratitude to NUS
eHomemakers extends our deepest gratitude on behalf of the group of disadvantaged weavers of the Eco-Basket project to the NUS (National University of Singapore)s 2010 practicum team. The team did a market research study in NUS and gave several recommendations for the project.

Festive Hampers
Celebrate 2012 festives and special occasions with our unique and beautifully presented gift hampers. Our hampers are filled with delectable goodies, beautifully packed and presented in our signature Eco-Baskets made by underserved women. Your thoughtful gesture can help a mother to feed her family.

Annual Internship Program (Local and Foreign Interns)
Know any university graduates who want practical experiences to advance career dreams? Refer them to eHomemakers internship program. Email resume and cover letter to 'manager@ehomemakers.net'.

Volunteers
eHomemakers has many volunteer opportunities. If you are looking for an opportunity to contribute your skills or time, read and apply.

Have you ever thought of giving back to the community by helping the poor and disadvantaged? Get involved with the Eco-Basket project which help women help themselves. Register here.

Special Advertising Package For 2012
Special marketing campaign for women members, value for the money for small businesses, homebased businesses, free-lancers, consultancies and SOHOs! Increase your exposure, network and business potentials locally and globally! More details.

Advertise Your Home Business At A Low Cost
Take advantage of our special deal to advertise your home business in the Xchange section for only RM150 (10 weeks subscription) and enjoy one FREE announcement in our e-newsletter which has more than 17,000 subscribers!
For ad reservations, please email registration@ehomemakers.net.

NOTE TO MEMBERS

eHomemakers' Blog
Read about Chong Sheau Ching's tale of a seemingly stupid but smart maid. I-Ping shares with you her latest review on an interesting self-help book. And finally, get yourself kneading our simply delicious homemade cinnamon rolls with Mazmin.

Connect With eHomemakers
Join us in Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Eco-Basket Facebook group.

Women Community Network Portal
eHomemakers joined 12 organizations to sign MOU for mutual cyber-collaboration on 5th February 2010 at Hotel Equatorial, Kuala Lumpur. The Women Community Network Portal will list all twelve organizations' existing programs and those that are extended to other organization. Look forward to eHomemakers members being able to post your ads to a cross-section of buyers and telework employers.

Google Adsense on eHomemakers
Please note that some of the ads displayed in Google Adsense may involve multi-level and 'downline' marketing schemes and get-rich-quick promotions. We advise you to exercise extreme caution, especially when an ad sounds too good to be true and promises quick returns with minimum effort. Please do some research on the Net, read eHomemakers' articles on scams and post your thoughts on our Forum Board.

SOHO NEWS

Are You Interested To Telework?
If you are interested to do telework, please fill up the skill set form and add ehomemakers_newsletter@npogroups.org to your address book to avoid the delivery of our e-newsletters to your spam folder.