After making its debut at the World Toilet Summit & Expo in December last year, the RAS Learning Pavilion - a roving exhibition on Singapore's sanitation - reached out to the first library at the Pasir Ris Public Library from 5th to 30th April. RAS also partnered with the NEA North East Regional Office (NERO) to showcase exhibits on recycling, anti-smoking and littering at the library. RAS also engaged the help of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) to recruit student volunteers to man the exhibition and share good restroom etiquette tips such as proper hand-washing procedures to library patrons. Patrons were also asked to take our restroom surveys.
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After reading the LHZB's special feature on the restroom tour along Orchard Road, a research writer from MediaCorp approached RAS to request for its appearance on the 5th series of “On The Beat”, a Channel U's most popular magazine-style infotainment programme hosted by Vivian Lai, Apple Hong, Lee Teng and Jeremy Chan. A segment of this programme features different restrooms in Singapore and our President's comments on her observation of the local restroom culture. RAS was requested to help identify restrooms worth featuring, in terms of cleanliness, design and unique features. Restrooms identified included a 5-star restroom at a Market and Food Centre in Ang Mo Kio and two creatively-decorated restrooms at the Temasek Secondary School (TSS) that has participated in our school education programme.
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RAS was approached by a LHZB journalist who would like to write on a cover story about the restrooms in the new shopping malls along Orchard Road. On 19th March, our President, Ms Tan, went on a restroom tour with the journalist and a photographer on 19th March at three new shopping malls namely ION Orchard, Orchard Central and 313@Somerset. The group set off from the Orchard MRT station to their first stop at the ION Orchard before moving out to the Orchard Central and final stop at the 313@Somerset. During the tour, an evaulation was done on the various restroom facilities in each mall.
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