Join the PHLUSH Singapore Challenge!
With inspiration from the folks at Sisters of the Road Café, we’re launching the PHLUSH Singapore Challenge. You see, they’re passing the hat to support PHLUSH. Former café manager Nikki Jardin is the PHLUSH Co-Founder who suggested the name with our mission: Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human. How about joining with colleagues at your…
PHLUSHers heading for Singapore soon
Tickets have been booked to permit two PHLUSH Co-Founders to speak at the the World Toilet Summit in Singapore on December 3, 2009. Organizers of the eighth annual event invited PHLUSH to share Portland’s experience in increasing the availability of public restrooms with experts from around the world. Barbara Lescher will present Public…
Celebrate World Toilet Day on November 19th
Celebrate World Toilet Day on November 19th Seedfolks Roots & Shoots and 4-H Clubshttp://milwaukee.uwex.edu/youth/4h/documents/TheBigSquat.pdf are inviting you to squat with us for one minute to draw awareness to this serious problem. We would like to have a squatting line that winds throughout the church! World Toilet Day is coming on November 19. I know what…
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