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 It is indeed
a privilege for the RAS, Restroom Association (Singapore) to receive the
Silent Heroes Awards in August. Since founded in 1998, RAS has been
working tirelessly. Undaunted by many challenges, we achieved many
milestones and launched flagship programmes such as our public
toilet-rating Happy Toilet Programme which recently welcomed another
tourist attraction Merlion Park in its
programme.
Coincidentally, since 2009, RAS also made numerous
efforts to recognise many silent or unsung heroes including cleaning
attendants with the introduction of the LOO (Let's Observe Ourselves)
Awards and presentation of grocery vouchers to cleaning attendants at
exhibitions and carnivals. Our recognition approach has resonated well
with students and for the second time as part of the Citi-YMCA Youth For Causes initiative, a group of Nan Chiau High students raised funds for RAS and
organised a carnival not only to educate the public to appreciate the cleaning
attendants but also present vouchers and gifts to the attendants.
Besides reaching out to the public, we also
reached out to the preschool sector by setting up a Happy Toilets @
Preschools Programme (HTPP) booth with our partners Adsec
Singapore and Universal Sovereign at the Pre-school Environmental
Education Advisor (EEA) Networking Session organised by the National
Environment Agency (NEA). RAS received great support with more than 20
preschools signing up for the HTPP at the event. Since the launch of the
HTTP last year, we have seen a rising trend in preschool participations in
less than two years and we strongly believe we are not far from reaching
our milestone of 100 preschools by the end of this year.
Ms Tan Puay
Hoon
President
Restroom Association (Singapore)
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