Global Handwashing Day
October 15, 2008
Courtesy: Rediff website
Today is Global Handwashing Day. The Day, designated by the United Nations as part of its on-going International Year of Sanitation, is aimed at improving hygiene practices among the people.
The Day would be celebrated as the centrepiece of week-long activities, starting from October 15, that are expected to mobilise millions of people in more than 20 countries around the world for the cause.
Image: Elementary school children wash their hands as 3000 children from a school in suburban Quezon City, Mexico, joined a hand washing program to fight diseases through proper hand washing, 19 November 2007. The children, together with health and hygiene experts from different health agencies led the exercise after a study by the World Health Organization said that 80 percent the world's incidence of illness can be traced to common health problems caused by germs.
The Day would be celebrated as the centrepiece of week-long activities, starting from October 15, that are expected to mobilise millions of people in more than 20 countries around the world for the cause.
Image: Elementary school children wash their hands as 3000 children from a school in suburban Quezon City, Mexico, joined a hand washing program to fight diseases through proper hand washing, 19 November 2007. The children, together with health and hygiene experts from different health agencies led the exercise after a study by the World Health Organization said that 80 percent the world's incidence of illness can be traced to common health problems caused by germs.
Photographs: Luis Liwanag/AFP/Getty Images
1 comment:
Thank you for shining a light on these often underestimated and even more often unknown ills. Diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea, and tuberculosis kill children in masses every day - and it's sad to know that a few simple hygienic actions could prevent so much death.
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