March 10, 2015
Location: Romania Participants: 296 Organizations: Stolnichi Middle School On 15 October, 2014, 296 students, aged 3 to 14, from the Middle School Stolnici participated in Global Handwashing Day. The doctor of the village took part in this activity to explain to the students the importance of using […]
March 10, 2015
Location: Burkina Faso Participants: 250 A initiative teaching handwashing with soap to schoolchildren and their parents was held.
March 10, 2015
Location: Les Cayes, Haiti Participants: 900 Organizations: Hope for Haiti On Wednesday, October 15th, 2014 Hope for Haiti participated in Global Handwashing Day at two community schools. Over 900 students, teachers, administrators, and community members came out to enjoy the event. Public health nurses talked […]
March 10, 2015
Location: Lahore, Pakistan Participants: 135 Organizations: Vandana Pakistan The day was celebrated at St. John’s Parish, Youhanabad Lahore Pakistan, with school children to raise awareness about handwashing. Catholic Priests of the community participated and encouraged the children. A walk was organized by the children, who went through […]
March 10, 2015
Location: Mymensing, Gazipur, Tangail, and Kishoregonj District Participants: 3,500 Organizations: icddr,b WASH Benefits Study On 15 October 2014, the WASH-B team of icddr,b celebrated Global Handwashing Day in Mymensing, Gazipur, Tangail, and Kishoregonj District. Around 3,500 children participated in the handwashing awareness campaign. The event featured […]
March 10, 2015
Location: Laguna, Pampanga, Metro Manila, Cebu, and Boracay Participants: 14,000 Organizations: Manila Water Foundation, Unilever Manila Water Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the Manila Water group in the Philippines, reached twice as many people from last year’s celebration through a week-long series of events […]
March 10, 2015
Cambodian Children’s Dream Organization concentrated Global Handwashing Day efforts at Tapang School with 700 students. They distributed a comic book showing what happens when you don’t wash your hands and had a morning of games reinforcing the importance of hand washing as well as distribution of […]
March 10, 2015
Ekta is a resource centre that works with and for girls and women in poverty and dangerous situations through a gender and development approach that also involves boys and men. Ekta also manages a shelter home called Nambikkai Centre in Killai (Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu). […]
March 10, 2015
The British Embassy School Ankara, Turkey incorporated ‘Global Handwashing Day’ into their ongoing healthy and hygiene health promotion activities with a simple Powerpoint, some handwashing clips on YouTube, and a couple of fun experiments to demonstrate how germs are spread. In the first activity, a […]
March 10, 2015
In developing countries, over 2,000 children die every day from diarrheal diseases. Handwashing is a life saver and it is one of the most effective ways to reduce diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections. Under the support of SULFO Rwanda industry, Burega, and other stakeholders, […]
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