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RAS shares
restroom hygiene tips with JTC tenants
RAS was
invited by the JTC to conduct a sharing session on restroom hygiene with
close to 100 tenants and lessees mostly from the F&B and retail
sectors. The invited guests were not only educated on restroom hygiene
but also updated on RAS’ exisiting programmes and new intiatives
i.e. the Happy Toilet
Programme, LOO
(Let’s Observe Ourselves) Connect and LOO (Let’s
Observe Ourselves) Whiz. The guests also had the opportunity to learn
about poor  sanitation conditions
of developing countries and interesting modern day concepts of developed
countries.
RAS also
invited its partner Tav Shield, to set up an exhibition booth to showcase
its innovative restroom solutions. In 2009, RAS was also invited by the National
Environment Agency (NEA) Hawkers Department to conduct an educational
talk to stallholders on the dos and don’ts of using toilets. Since
2009, RAS has conducted numerous educational talks for working
professionals from all walks of life such as the medical, logistics,
F&B and service industry.
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RAS trains
volunteers to conduct mystery Happy Toilet audits in the South West
district
Owing to
the generosity of the venue supporter JTC, a group of 12 volunteers
gathered at the JTC Summit in Jurong East for a training session on a
Saturday afternoon. The training session consisted of both theoretical and
practical lessons on restroom assessment which would equip volunteers with
the appropriate skills to complete the restroom
checklist. After the training, the volunteers headed off to
coffeeshops in the South West district i.e. Choa Chu Kang, Clementi, Jurong
West and West Coast
to conduct mystery Happy Toilet audits.
 8 teams of one
to two volunteers were assigned to two to four coffeeshops depending on
the distance of the locations. After the audit, volunteers had to submit
their results online. In December last year, RAS also
tapped on SG
Cares portal, an initiative by the National
Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC), for volunteers to conduct
Happy Toilet mystery audits in the South East district. Since 2010, RAS
has been engaging the help of SG Cares for volunteers to help out at its
various community activities.
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RAS showcases its
latest initiatives at River Valley High School
For the
second consecutive year, RAS was an invited participant of River Valley High School’s
Service and Citizenship Society’s Learning Festival. RAS was given
the opportunity to once again showcase its school programme projects that
complement the Ministry of Education’s new Values In Action  initiative.
Along with other community partners like Waterways Watch Society, RAS
introduced a series of possible volunteering opportunities for interested
students to partake in.
The student body of River Valley High came down to the exhibition
booths at staggered intervals to view the exhibits and gain more
information about our outreach initiatives. RAS was once again pleased to
see the interest shown by the students as the students asked very
pertinent questions and pledged to keep their school washrooms clean.
Aside from our projects and our LOO
(Let’s Observe Ourselves) Connect feedback portal, many
students were also given a demonstration of our LOO (Let’s
Observe Ourselves) Whiz facebook game and agreed
that it was a good way to empathise with their school cleaners. RAS looks
forward to more of such school events in the near future.
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RAS supports Singapore
World Water Day (WWD)
After
its maiden participation at the WWD last year, RAS was
invited again by the PUB to reach out to visitors at the Marina Barrage
on 16th March. Apart from inviting visitors to take our survey, visitors also
had fun playing our interactive LOO (Let’s
Observe Ourselves) Whiz facebook game to
experience the  demanding
work of restroom cleaning. Our partner Tav Shield was also present to
demonstrate to visitors its coating technology that created a thin
protective film enabling surfaces to be cleaned easily.
The
WWD is held internationally on 22 March every year as a means of focusing
attention on the importance of water and advocating for the sustainable
management of water resources. PUB commemorated its first WWD in 2009 and
this year, island-wide activities was held with the anchor event at
Marina Barrage, accompanied by satellite activities at five major Active,
Beautiful, Clean Waters (ABC Waters) sites and partners' adopted water bodies.
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