Dear Friends,
OVERVIEW
“We got to still do much more!”
If we want to truly achieve good public hygiene, we have to be more serious in our effort and do much more sustainable action. Waterways Watch had a full back-to-back week, conducting a total of 10 CSR programmes (Allkin, American Express, Shell Eastern Trading, Huamin Primary School, Halliburton Far East, Cooley, Adobe, Salesforce, Maybank and BNPP) and 1 large school VIA with Huamin Primary School for 191 students. In total we collected 755.3 kg with plastic and cans the highest in numbers. It is really disappointing to be faced with so much litter especially in and along our reservoir waters (Marina). The conclusion is a no brainer – many still litter and pollute our environment. More education and awareness programmes are needed. Much more, and we cannot do this by public speeches and media coverage or with heftier fines. More Tell, Show and Do is the only way! Hands-holding. You see, you smell, you pick-up and you now understand and know ‘how dirty we still are!’.
During the week we were called upon to also support with 3 safety boat services and we would like to commend a regular partner of ours, DBI for incorporating litter picking before dragon boating. A great initiative to add value and meaning while enjoying our waters, dragon boating. We hope to fine tune this initiative and see more regular partnerships with DBI. Thank you, Jason, from DBI. If only more such vendors and even NSAs’ enjoying and using our waterways would follow this good example.. (Perhaps PUB may want to consider looking into this opportunity.)
Summary of activities conducted over this week
In summary, the following activities were done for this week:
- We conducted 10 CSR and 1 VIA programmes which were attended by 497 participants and 191 participants respectively, and together they collected a total of 755.3kg of litter.
- A total of 85 members were involved in CSR/VIA programmes and talks; another 77 members turned up for patrols, administration, housekeeping duties and training.
- The total trash collected by patrol groups from members was 117.5kg .
- Boat Patrol. A total of 4 Boat patrols were carried out; 2 at Marina, 1 at Punggol and 1 at Lakeside.
- Bike Patrol. A total of 3 Bike patrols were carried out; 2 at Marina and 1 at Lakeside.
- Kayak Patrol. 1 Kayak patrol was conducted at Punggol.
- Gardening. 8 members did gardening at Marina.
- Maintenance. 2 members did maintenance at Marina.
ACTIVITIES AND REPORT
1. Educational Programmes
2. Volunteer Patrols & Activities
a. Marina
b. Punggol
c. Lakeside
d. Pang Sua Pond
| No patrol |
e. Yishun Pond Patrol
| No patrol |