Global Handwashing Day… Clean Hands Save Lives!
Clean Hands Save Lives! Today marks the first-ever Global Handwashing Day, an initiative by Health in Your Hands, UNICEF, Unilever, and many others, the campaign aims to transform handwashing with soap from an abstract good idea into an automatic behavior performed in homes, schools, and communities worldwide, specially before eating and after using the toilet.
I never thought that handwashing could be something that you need to urge people to do, I always thought it’s an integral routine of people’s lives, but if you think about it, many people in Africa, and maybe few part of Asia don’t have drinkable water, so you should expect them to was their hands probably.
According to their website, approximately half of the 120 million children born in the developing world each year will live in households without access to improved sanitation, at grave risk to their survival and development. Poor hygiene and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88% of deaths from diarrhoeal diseases, accounting for 1.5 million diarrhoea-related under-five deaths each year.
What a screwed-up planet we live on! When you look at cosmetics, perfumes, fashion… and all the irrelevant-to-human-living stuff, you can’t imagine that many people on this planet are unable to wash their hands to get them clean, and event worse, can’t find clean water to drink. Humans are the worst creatures ever.
Personally I think such initiatives worth the support, at least to have more priority than those focusing on animal rights, I know humans are so brutal to their fellow animals, but they are even much more brutal to their fellow humans.
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on October 15, 2008 at 5:02 pm kinzi wrote:
Hey, great coincidence with Blogging about Poverty Day! Seriously!
When my son was born, i was appalled to see the nurse slap his one day old bottom for wiggling during a bath. When I complained to the doctor, he said “We can’t even get these nurses to wash their hands, how long until they learn not to slap newborns?” It’s not just in Africa.
on October 15, 2008 at 5:16 pm Samer Marzouq wrote:
Yea, it’s a coincidence
A nurse that don’t wash her hands should be suspended, seriously!