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RAS unveils plans for SaniGives
In her welcome address to award recipients
and guests at the eighth LOO
(Let’s Observe Ourselves) Awards ceremony, RAS President Ms Tan
unveils plans of introducing a fundraising initiative called SaniGives
for cleaning attendants. This is after studying its latest online survey
results of 230 respondents with SurveyMonkey. According to the survey
results, 8 in 10 respondents expressed their support for fund raising
campaigns for cleaning attendants while 6 in 10 respondents expressed
their intent of buying toiletries from companies raising funds for
cleaning attendants. This was followed by 3 in 10 respondents as  undecided buyers with only 1 in 10
respondents not buying them. Under the SaniGives initiative, RAS plans to
partner with sanitary-product companies to raise funds for cleaning
attendants.
Companies can decide on the amount to be
donated to RAS for every purchase made by consumers. Companies also have
the option of offering attractive discounts to public individuals who
have donated to RAS. Both companies and public donors can receive tax
deductions for all donations made to RAS. Public individuals can donate
to RAS by making a minimum donation of $10 online via a secured charity
donation portal at www.giving.sg/RestroomAssociation.
Giving.sg is a secured charity donation portal created and powered by the
National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC). Donations will be
used to purchase grocery vouchers and organise appreciation activities
such as tribute lunches for cleaning attendants. Grocery vouchers were
also presented to winning cleaning attendants at the LOO Awards. Since
2014, more than 150 cleaning attendants have since benefited from public
donations.
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RAS gives out 47 awards at the
eighth LOO (Let’s Observe Ourselves) Awards
On 17th November, a total of 47 LOO Awards recipients were recognised for their
commendable achievements including 6 Platinum STAR
and 20 Gold STAR schools
awarded under
the STAR (Sustaining Toilets As
Restrooms) Awards Programme. In her speech, Senior
Minister of State for the Environment and Water Resources Dr Amy Khor said
it was imperative to set higher standards and expressed her delight about
RAS’ proactive collaboration with its partners, such as Adsec Global, Convergent Smart Technologies, Infinergy Systems, as well
as Viso to promote smart
toilet technologies. Prior to making her speech, Dr Khor had a firsthand
experience of the smart technologies when she  visited
the display booths. In addition to the above RAS partners, Adkel
Solutions and Universal Sovereign were
also present to showcase their products to Dr Khor and visiting guests.
After touring the exhibition booths, Dr Khor also
went on a
tour of the decorated restrooms which was hosted by the students
from CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace (OLQP). Apart
from clinching the highest accolade of the Platinum STAR award for
achieving the Gold STAR in three consecutive years, a student of CHIJ
OLQP, Ms Nandini Nair, also clinched the LOO Kidz award which was newly
introduced to recognise primary school students demonstrating exceptional
leadership and passion. The LOO Awards ended on a high note owing to the
great hospitality and commitment of CHIJ OLQP and we wish to express our
deepest appreciation to its Principal Mrs Tan and her staff for their
support.
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RAS shares
its key initiatives with delegates at the World Toilet Summit & Expo (WTSE)
2016
The
RAS was invited by the World Toilet Organization
to its WTSE 2016 held in Kuching as
one of the panellists for its panel discussion on overcoming challenges
on the ground. Joining RAS were toilet associations from Bhutan,
Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan. RAS shared about its flagship public
toilet rating programme - Happy Toilet Programme which is similarly replicated
and implemented in Kuching. RAS also shared its  success
story of actively engaging all stakeholders including government agencies
to raise toilet standards and its partnerships with companies on smart
toilet technologies to overcome manpower constraints in Singapore. The
Kuching WTSE attracted about 600 delegates worldwide including many
Malaysian government officials.
The
RAS played its part as a local partner of the Singapore WTSE in 2009 and
supported the Philadelphia
WTSE in the following year, to share about
its close partnership with the government agencies which included working
with the National Environment Agency on a revised guideline of providing
more female toilets. Since the inception of the World Toilet Summit in
2001, the summit had been successfully held at major cities worldwide such
as Singapore, Seoul, Taipei, Beijing, Belfast, Moscow, New Delhi, Macau,
Hainan, Philadelphia and Solo, reaching out to a total of about 10,000
delegates.
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RAS supports
Clean & Green Singapore (CGS) Carnival
After the CGS Carnival, which was opened to
the public, ended on 6th November, preschools and schools were invited to
the carnival the following day on Monday with special stage performance
and activities educating them on tips of going green and keeping the toilets
and public areas clean. Visiting preschoolers and students also got to
visit one of the exhibition booths about public toilet hygiene with our Happy Toilet Programme
logo display. RAS was invited  by the National Environment Agency (NEA) to
set up an activity booth for visiting teachers, parents and preschoolers.
RAS partnered with Adsec Global and Universal
Sovereign to
set up the booth with Adsec Global showcasing its product and
bacteria-count learning experience with teachers while RAS conducting the
educational game activity for preschoolers.
Preschoolers were presented with tissue
packets and tokens, which were sponsored by Universal Sovereign, for
successfully completing the game. The popularity of the game saw more
than 100 preschoolers visiting our booth, setting a record of more than
10 preschoolers playing the game at the same time. For the first time,
the CGS Schools' (CGSS) Carnival was held at the same site of the CGS
Carnival to better reach out the preschool and school communities. The
CGSS carnivals had been mostly held at educational institutions such as
Institute of Technical Education (ITE) Colleges for the past few years.
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