4th April 09 and 18th April 09 (also day of our RC workshop) saw a team of volunteers head down to collect UCO from Chong Pang RC Zone 7 once again.
We are glad that students from Chong Cheng High Yishun (CCHY) formed the core group of volunteers – just one member of Project GREASE went down on 4th April, with a school friend who volunteered. CCHY did the oil collection all by themselves on 18th April, as Project GREASE was busy with workshop preparations. CCHY has come on board GREASE-ycle as a partner school, and will be coordinating the bulk of efforts pertaining to this initiative in Chong Pang RC Zone 7.
The UCO collection went relatively smoothly – I (Talia) wasn’t required to coordinate anything at all, merely as (wo)manpower. The CCHY students seemed prepared, although it would have been better if they were slightly better-equipped logistics wise – there was a shortage of large containers. That resulted in my friend and I having to lug around over 10 small containers and bottles around during the entire collection, which wasn’t much of a problem, just inconvenient.
Nevertheless, it went quite well overall, and we are glad that CCHY is stepping up to take the lead in this. Both sessions yielded 10 containers of UCO.
4th April
18th April
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On a side note, we were rather excited at seeing a banner advertising our upcoming soap-making workshop for residents in the area proudly displayed! There were black-and-white posters of the workshop as well, at the foot of all the blocks. We are definitely looking forward to the workshop on 18 Apr 09.
Banner done up by RC advertising our workshop
Oil to soap movement 