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Supporters

Global Handwashing Day supporters make it possible for millions of people to celebrate the importance of handwashing with soap on October 15th! These supporters provide resources to support Global Handwashing Day materials, coordination, and promotion. If your organization is interested in becoming a Global Handwashing Day supporter, please contact us.


Colgate-Palmolive

Colgate-Palmolive was a founding member of the GHP. A cleaner, healthy environment is important to Colgate not only because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it makes good business sense. Colgate’s 2011 to 2015 sustainability strategy maintains its emphasis on People, Performance and Planet, with focused, measurable goals that align with the Company’s business objectives. As part of that commitment, Colgate aims to provide handwashing awareness to over 50 million households.

Essity

Essity is committed to the long-term goal of improving hygiene  standards around the world through dialogue and programs that lead to behavior change. Millions of people use Essity products daily, and as one of the largest hygiene and health companies in the world, they recognize their responsibility to raise awareness of the undeniable link between hygiene and overall health and well-being. Raising awareness about critical hygiene issues, such as the importance of hand sanitation and handwashing in limiting the spread of infections and disease, is a vital step to addressing these challenges and improving hygiene standards around the world. No one, no matter who they are or where they live, should have to suffer physically or mentally due to insufficient hygiene.

FHI 360

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Staff include experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research and technology—creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories. FHI 360 currently houses the Secretariat of the GHP, and its predecessor organization was a founder of the GHP.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Since its founding in 1899, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has been a leader in education and research in the global health field. Their mission is to improve health worldwide by translating technical knowledge into real world solutions. LSHTM was a founding member of the GHP. For more than two decades, the Environmental Health Group at the School have been developing infrastructural and behavior change solutions to encourage handwashing all around the world. Researchers within the team have led many of the handwashing-world’s pioneering research initiatives which continue to influence the sector. Key ways that LSHTM support the GHP are through technical expertise and literature reviews.

Procter and Gamble

P&G believe that before they can serve the world’s remaining consumers profitably, they can reach them altruistically through social responsibility programs, improving their lives in ways that enable them to thrive, to increase their quality of living and, over time, to join the population of consumers they serve with P&G brands. P&G, through its brand Safeguard, and its design agency Landor Associates, created the Global Handwashing Day mascot ‘Better Together’ featuring Soap, Hand and Water, a design which went on to win a 2009 Bronze Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

SC Johnson

Through its various brands, S.C. Johnson & Sons, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide handwashing, sanitizing and skin care products. SC Johnson Professional is a leading international provider of handwashing and hand hygiene solutions in institutional, food, and healthcare organizations and serves as a champion for infection and prevention control in health care settings.

UNICEF

UNICEF is the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF’s work is carried out in 191 countries through country programs and National Committees. Their programs help to promote handwashing and hygiene behavioral change by: advocating for increased funding for hygiene activities and the inclusion of hygiene in sectoral policies and strategies; supporting national & sub-national handwashing campaigns; including strong hygiene components within its own WASH programs in the field; ensuring that handwashing and hygiene are components of emergency response programs; developing strategies and tools to encourage handwashing promotion by community health & outreach workers; encouraging hygiene promotion in schools and the empowerment of children as agents of change within their families and communities.

Unilever

For Unilever, sustainability is integral to how they do business. By 2020, they aim to help more than a billion people to improve their health and well-being. Their brand Lifebuoy aims to make a difference by creating accessible hygiene products (soap) and promoting healthy hygiene habits.  With this in mind, Lifebuoy aims to change the handwashing behavior of 1 billion people across Asia, Africa and Latin America by 2015. The Lifebuoy Handwashing Behavior Change Program was launched in 2010. Handwashing behavior change programs are now central to Lifebuoy plans in all countries where the Lifebuoy brand is present, with hygiene promotion activities fully embedded into brand activities on an on-going basis.

USAID

USAID is the lead U.S. government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential. As a founding partner of the GHP in 2001, USAID is a key stakeholder in the partnership. Through funding, advocating for hygiene, and providing technical expertise through USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, the Agency has leveraged its relationship with the GHP and partners to make significant progress on improving hygiene in communities around the world. 

World Bank

As the world’s largest multilateral source of financing for
water in developing countries, the World Bank is working closely with partners to achieve “A Water-Secure World for All,” by investing in solutions that enable universal access to water supply and sanitation, promote water security, and build resilient societies.

 

World Vision

World Vision is a Christian non-profit organization working to help communities lift themselves out of poverty. Through its global WASH business plan, it works to accelerate universal and equitable access to WASH services under SDG 6 with a strong focus on hygiene access and behavior change. World Vision incorporates hand hygiene behavior change in every WASH program they implement. Their programs focus on handwashing with soap in households, schools, and healthcare facilities.

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