Dear Friends,
OVERVIEW
From Let’s Go Green to Oil Spill!
It was a week of meetings and corporate programme CSRs. We were interviewed by a student from Perth (Jet) doing journalism, had a meeting with 3-degrees on a potential enhanced partnership, had zoom calls with two corporations, and had 6 CSR programmes. In addition, we had a one-star course for 9 members conducted by Kian Seng, with Darren Tan and Patrick Wang assisting over the weekend. We were pleasantly surprised to have two long-term members visit us this weekend while on holiday in Singapore – Patricia our former kayak leader/trainer and Serban our former active kayak facilitator.
Besides the normal members’ patrol, the week’s highlight was our booth at the launch of Go Green at Republic Polytechnic. We had many interesting engagement opportunities with visitors attending. The garden crew was in full strength on Sunday with some ladies having a staycation at WWS over this long weekend. On Monday, a Public Holiday, Lakeside had 7 members present doing some improvement work on the pontoon using Solar Panels. We also like to share sightings of fishing outside authorised zones, using of live bait and unauthorised hawking still seen around the Kallang basin.
WWS also concerned about the oil spill incident along the west and east coasts that happened last Saturday. We helped to circulate the volunteer recruitment form of NPark and MPA among our members.
Another eventful week at Waterways Watch. Thank you members.
Summary of activities conducted over this week
In summary, the following activities were done for this week:
- We conducted 6 CSR programmes, a total of 115 participants attended, and together they collected 287 kg of litter.
- A total of 26 members were involved in CSR/VIA programmes and talks; another 61 members turned up for patrols, administration, housekeeping duties and training.
- The total trash collected by members’ patrol was 124kg.
- Boat Patrol. A total of 3 Boat patrols were carried out; 2 at Marina and 1 at Punggol.
- Bike Patrol. A total of 3 Bike patrols were carried out; 2 at Marina and 1 at Punggol.
- Pedal boat Patrol. 1 Pedal Boat patrol was conducted at Lakeside.
- Foot Patrol. A total of 1 Foot patrol was conducted at Pang Sua Pond.
- Kayak Patrol. 1 Kayak patrol was conducted at Marina.
- Gardening. 8 Members did gardening at Marina.
- Maintenance. 2 members did maintenance at Punggol and 6 members did maintenance at Lakeside.
ACTIVITIES AND REPORT
1. Educational Programmes
2. Volunteer Patrols & Activities
a. Marina
b. Punggol
c. Lakeside
d. Pang Sua Pond
e. Yishun Pond Patrol
| No patrol |