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Jack Sim () is the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore and World Toilet Organization. Formerly in the construction industry, he left to found the World Toilet Organization in 2001.〔"Singaporean Fights For Better Toilets Around the World," ''Voice of America'' 27 October 2007.()〕 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.〔(Schwab Foundation Website )〕 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.〔"World Toilet Czar Finds Beauty in Times Square," ''The New York Times'' 21 November 2007.()〕 Sim was named one of the Heroes of the Environment for 2008 by ''Time'' magazine. Jack broke the global taboo of toilet and sanitation by bringing it to global media centre-stage with his unique mix of humour and serious facts since 2001. After attaining financial independence at age of 40 as a businessman, he decided to devote the rest of his life to social work. == Achievements in sanitation == He established the Restroom Association of Singapore (RAS) in 1998, which addresses the state of dirty public toilets in designs, building codes and poorly trained cleaners. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Sim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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