Junk mail with a cause

I hate junk mail, and not the elec­tronic kind. I get tons of paper jammed into our mail­box down­stairs, and it really really irks me to see that com­pa­nies keep think­ing it’s the best way to get word out about their prod­ucts and services.

Well it’s not, and you’re not get­ting my busi­ness, pizza hut, canadian241 and KFC and var­i­ous other real estate agents!

So it was with some glee that I found in our let­ter­box yes­ter­day a junk mail from St Joseph’s Institution’s Green Club.

I was going to be all cyn­i­cal and blog about how ungreen their Green Club could be — putting dead tree junk mail into people’s mail­boxes and hop­ing the recip­i­ents won’t just chuck it with­out read­ing it.

But see­ing as I was going to blog about it, I read it, and found that, okay, it was for a good cause — SJI’s Green Club is col­lect­ing used and unused spec­ta­cles for peo­ple who are too poor to get glasses them­selves. It’s called the Gift of Sight Project.

So, you’re for­given, SJI Green Club!

For more infor­ma­tion, or if you have eye­glasses you want to give away — email Mr Tan Too Yong tooyong@sji.edu.sg or Ms Gina Tan ginatan@sji.edu.sg