08Keeping the estate clean, disposing rubbish bags into litter bins are what we as citizens should do in order to maintain a clean and green city. But have we ever wondered who are the ones who clear the rubbish bins as well as sweep the roads?
Singaporeans should learn from Kimberly Spykerman as she cleans up Bishan estate with Mr Muhamad Talib, an estate worker. Experiencing jobs that Singaporeans are unwilling to do is a daunting and boring thing to do. We tend to take things for granted, even for the minor things that happen in our daily lives. Cleaning up an estate manually, heavy lifting of rubbish bags and sending them to the garbage disposal are jobs of cleaners that help Singapore to be so clean, but majority doesn't appreciate it.
I think that Singaporeans should take the initiative to clear up their own estate, and not to contribute to the litter. This can greatly help reduce cleaner's jobs as they go around every corner to pick up rubbish.
In my opinion, schools should organise CIP activities, whereby students can get to experience such jobs under the hot sun, and to understand and go through the hardships of the cleaners as they put themselves into their shoes, so that they will learn from their past mistakes and not to litter again.
Presenting cash awards for Housing Development Board (HDB) cleaners is also a good way to attract jobless Singaporeans to take up cleaning as their job as nowadays people are not keen on cleaning jobs. Hardworking and diligent cleaners will be able to receive cash rewards for their great service towards the nation in keeping the city clean.
Nowadays Singaporeans are contributing more litter on grounds and we should strongly encourage them not to look down on cleaners as cleaners have done their best to clean and they deserve the most. They are the ones that made foreigners have a good impression of Singapore. So let's keep the country clean and green!
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