Societies & charity

Haliza is a Chairperson and trustee for MERCY Malaysia UK, a fully registered medical and humanitarian charity based in London. Among other causes, the charity helped collect funds for the Sulawesi earthquake; donated food to those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire in London; deployed volunteer doctors to MERCY Malaysia primary health clinics in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh to help the Rohingya refugees; provided medical assistance and prosthetic limbs to Syrian refugees in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon and organised psychosocial activities such as ‘Drum for Hope’ for a group of refugee children in Nottingham, UK.

At present MMUK is embarking on a cleft lip and palate surgery project for underprivileged children in Myanmar by sending a medical team to Mandalay.

MMUK is also organising fundraising events for to help fund a new research in London - on young people afflicted by ADHD and Autism conditions as well as working with a children hospital in London to help purchase medical aids for children suffering from life threatening respiratory conditions.

She is an executive committee member for the British Malaysian Society, London. Between 2008 to 2011, she was an event coordinator and helped organised talks, exhibitions, workshops, networking lunches, and annual dinners for the Society. She was involved in a charity project ‘Books for Malaysia’ - collecting and sending thousands of children’s English reading books to rural schools in Malaysia; she helped organised the Royal Weaves exhibition and assisted the Society’s Music for Malaysia concert celebrating Malaysia’s 60th independence.

She supports two other charities - PAWA, Pan Asian Women's Association, a charity that help provide education for girls and Save Wild Tigers.

Haliza is also a member of the London Correspondents Service.