UN pushes handwashing with soap to millions
World Bank also promotes handwashing project
The united Nations has continued to proactively encourage handwashing with soap, staging a Global Handwashing Day in October, with UN Children’s Fund UNICEF organising events.
Unicef says eight million children in India’s Rajasthan, more than 1 million children in Pakistan,1.7 million children in Afghanistan from 1,700 schools, plus 326,809 Eritrean children in 1,272 schools participated in handwashing events. Peru’s government declared a national handwashing week involving 3.5 million pupils in 20,000 schools.
The World Bank has also written a report stressing its own Handwashing Project in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania and Vietnam. In Peru the project sent handwashing messages to 5.1 million women and children over four years to 2010.