Jack Sim
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Jack Sim (simplified Chinese: 沈锐华; traditional Chinese: 沈銳華; pinyin: Shěn Ruìhuá) is the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore and World Toilet Organization. Formerly in the construction industry, he left to found the Toilet Organization in 2001.[1] For "creating good will and bringing the subject into the open" and "mobilizing national support in providing on-the-ground expertise" he received the Schwab Foundation award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year, also in 2001.[2] He was elected a Fellow of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in 2007, and as of Fall 2007 he was assisting in the United Nations plans for the International Year of Sanitation in 2008.[3]
Sim was named one of the Heroes of the Environment for 2008 by Time Magazine.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Singaporean Fights For Better Toilets Around the World," Voice of America October 27, 2007.[1]
- ^ Schwab Foundation Website.[2]
- ^ "World Toilet Czar Finds Beauty in Times Square," The New York Times November 21, 2007.[3]
- ^ Beech, Hannah (September 24, 2008). "Jack Sim". Time. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841778_1841781_1841822,00.html. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
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- Biography at the World Toilet Organization.
- Ashoka Profile of Jack Sim at Ashoka web site
