The Global Hand washing Day is an annual event with the aim of creating awareness about imbibing Hand washing with soap (lifebuoy) amongst Children as a means to preventing diarrhoea. This year’s event is scheduled to hold on October 15th and will mark the fifth year anniversary of the GHD event as a means to shedding light and drawing attention to over 2.1 million Children who do not attain the age of 5 as a result of life threatening diseases such as Pneumonia and Diarrhoea. These are diseases that can be cubed through proper hand washing with soap. The 4TH Millennium Development goal is to reduce Child mortality especially those aged 5 and below by two thirds before 2015. Lifebuoy and its partners such as Unilever Nigeria Plc, Verdant Zeal, Brain Box, Lagos State Government are calling on governments ,schools and communities in Nigeria to focus on hand washing with soap as an intervention that can help save millions of lives , especially children.
This year’s theme is tagged “Help a child reach the age of 5”. Become an ambassador by pledging to help a child reach the age of 5 .
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