Dear Friends,
OVERVIEW
Another week of activities and as expected, mostly with Corporates although we still had one VIA with Middleton International School doing a VIA WWE at Kallang. Waterways Watch is very pleased to have conducted a successful beach clean-up for Coca Cola with over 180 of their employees, collecting over one ton of litter. The rest of the week had us engaging corporates like QBE Insurance, Fitch Rating (Visit.org), DBS, OCBC, Arcadium Lithium, Ernst & Young and FedEx. A variety of different corporations but all sharing a common interest cause- Sustainable Environment.
It was another good week for WWS. In total, we engaged 439 employees from the corporate world and 23 from the school. We collected a total of 1633 kg just for these CSR/VIA programmes. This was besides our members doing environmental patrols at Punggol, Lakeside and Kallang/Marina. Lakeside also had a Kayak clean-up on Sunday and this time they were not disappointed as the weather was great for the group of 16 members.
During member’s patrol, sightings of fishing outside authorised zones, smoking and illegal hawking in the public park are still present, especially around Marina Reservoir. We will engage where appropriate and in most cases, they do comply.
Summary of activities conducted over this week
In summary, the following activities were done for this week:
- We conducted 8 CSR and 1 VIA programmes which were attended by 439 participants and 23 participants respectively, and together they collected a total of 1633 kg of litter.
- A total of 71 members were involved in CSR/VIA programmes and talks; another 56 members turned up for patrols, administration, housekeeping duties and training.
- The total trash collected by patrol groups from members was 75 kg .
- Boat Patrol. A total of 4 Boat patrols were carried out; 1 at Marina, 2 at Punggol and 1 at Lakeside.
- Bike Patrol. A total of 3 Bike patrols were carried out; 2 at Marina and 1 at Punggol.
- Kayak Patrol. 1 Kayak patrol was conducted at Lakeside.
- Gardening. 4 members did gardening 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 |