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Singapore has been praised for being a clean and green country, but do we know what it takes to make that happen?
Well, a spotlight has been cast on the unsung heroes who maintain our estates every day in the form of a YouTube video by the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council — specifically on a cleaner named Ong Teng Kee from the Paya Lebar ward.
Ong has been working as an estate cleaner for seven years and admitted that it is harder to clean the upper floors of the HDB blocks. He said his knees hurt especially when he’s sweeping the stairwell.
“There are two times in a year where we have to work a lot harder,” Ong said in Mandarin. “[The first is] the Chinese New Year spring cleaning period where people will throw a lot of stuff out. Another is the seventh month where residents will pray and place offerings along the corridor.
“They will shout ‘Huat ah!’ and throw the paper offerings happily while we cleaners will have a hard time sweeping it up.”
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