Cleaners' Day

This is an idea I had haboured for some time.

Imagine a day when all the cleaners are appreciated for their 'lowly and menial' contributions to our living environment. And their gaps are filled by volunteers.

Will you still dirty the table in the coffeeshop? Will you still pee all over the toilet bowl? Will you still litter the ground? Will you smile at the Aunty and Uncle who came by your table, dragging the terrible soup of leftovers to collect the plates of the previous occupier, helping them stack the plates so that they can collect more easily and then say 'thank you' without the expression of disgust?

The world is kept in order by everyone and one large faction of them had kept the order of the physical world for us.

We should appreciate them by doing their job to show that they are important and remind ourselves of the most basics of life. Whatever riches of the world one may accumulate, no one is above the need to create for themselves physical order of their environment.

People who agrees and would like to make this happen please leave a comment. The plan is to gather movement, get volunteers, liaise with contractors to give cleaners paid leave with a simple appreciation event while volunteers do the cleaners' job for a day. This has to be done area by area. ie a hawker center a time, a school a time, a company/building a time.

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