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Global Handwashing Day Special Edition
The practice of handwashing with soap has been prominent in the last few years on the international hygiene agenda. The second annual Global Handwashing Day takes place on Thursday, 15 October 2009 in countries all over the world, including countries where WSSCC is active through its National WASH Coalitions. The guiding vision of Global Handwashing Day is a local and global culture of handwashing with soap. Although people around the world wash their hands with water, very few wash their hands with soap at critical moments (for example, after using the toilet, while cleaning a child, and before handling food).
Follow these links for more information about the Global Handwashing Day for 2009 and related activities:
- For Global Handwashing Day, WSSCC is proud to partner with the soap brand Lifebuoy to create an activity that unites children across the globe - a drawing competition that declares "Clean Hands for Good Health", where school children can draw a poster that promotes the essential habit of handwashing with soap. In particular WSSCC is supporting the competition together with Lifebuoy in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi. Learn more by clicking here.
- WSSCC is a founding organization behind the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW), organizer of the Global Handwashing Day. Get a handwashing fact sheet by clicking here, or read the official Global Handwashing Day press release in these languages (click on the language):
- English
- French
- Arabic
- Spanish
- A new UNICEF–WHO report Diarrhoea: Why Children Are Still Dying and What Can Be Done is being released on October 14 and highlights the proven diarrheal disease prevention and treatment solutions already available today. Click here access and read the report.
- For the above-mentioned report, a coalition of U.S.-based public and private organizations have come together to highlight the issues. Read their release here.