KUCHING: The Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) will extend the clean toilet competition in an effort to continue fostering a clean toilet culture in the community.
Its chairman, Lo Khere Chiang, believes that such an initiative might be of significant encouragement in maintaining a clean culture among people and communities, particularly in the aspect of clean public toilets.
He said that it can bring about a significant improvement in the cleanliness status of public toilets as well as encourage the community’s laudable attempts to nurture clean environmental practices.
Lo was speaking at the Primary and Secondary School Clean Toilet and Poster Drawing Competition prize-giving ceremony for the winners at the MPP Training Room.
“In future, MPP will extend and extend this type of competition category to all levels of society, particularly the youth.
“We are grateful that the programme this time received a positive response from the school, as well as attention from other parties,” he said.
He stressed that the competition is part of MPP’s on-going efforts to promote toilet hygiene and a clean living environment among youth, particularly students.
The goal of this initiative is to guarantee that the toilet’s under MPP’s jurisdiction are comfortable, clean, and safe for all students to use at all times.
“This indirectly fosters a culture so that our children know how to use the toilet properly,” he explained.
The competition themed ‘Toilet Cleanliness Shared Responsibility’ started in November and was participated by 16 schools comprising 40 primary and secondary school students.
Lo suggested that students’ posters can be used as a moral guideline by sticking them on the walls of public restrooms.
He went on to say that this will help users of public toilets become more conscious of the values of maintaining clean restrooms.
The primary school poster drawing competition was won by Shirley Chung Cai Ni who represented Chung Hua National Type School Pangkalan Baru, followed by Choa Yee Xuan from SJK Chung Hua Batu 8 1/2 in second place, and the third placing went to Eugene Huang Sin Kee from SJK Chung Hua Syn San Tu.
As for the secondary school category, the first placing went to Cherlin Ong Jin Ding from Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Jalan Arang, followed by Annabel Ch’ng Wan Yi (SMK Jalan Arang) in second place, and Xaviera Hannan Mohd Harmizan from SMK Sains Kuching in third position.
