Handwashing Day: Firms Intensify Hygiene Campaign In Lagos

As the satellite commemorates Global Hand washing Day, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), has taken its hygiene consciousness run to the Ijora assemblage successful Lagos, urging corporate enactment against preventable diseases.

The run was successful concern with Dettol Nigeria.

Global Handwashing Day is observed annually connected October 15 to beforehand 1 of the simplest and cost-effective ways to forestall diseases, washing hands with soap and water.

This year’s theme, “Our Future is astatine Hand – Let’s Move Forward Together,” brought unneurotic pupils, parents, teachers, and assemblage leaders for a hands-on consciousness workout focused connected due handwashing techniques.

The manager of Programming and Reporting astatine WBFA, Dr Osinachi Onyeoziri, expressed gratitude to the accepted ruler and the enactment of Ijora Kingdom for their unwavering enactment and hospitality.

He described their endorsement of the inaugural arsenic a reflection of existent enactment and a committedness to assemblage health.

Founded successful 2004, WBFA is dedicated to improving the wellness and well-being of women, children, and communities crossed Africa.

According to Onyeoziri, the instauration has reached implicit 400,000 individuals with hygiene education, including 280,000 students successful much than 600 schools, implicit 113,000 women, and 47,000 assemblage members crossed Lagos, Kwara, and Abuja.

“We are championing a question that goes beyond conscionable washing hands. We are gathering a civilization of self-care, assemblage care, and sustainable wellness practices that volition support generations to come,” Onyeoziri said.

He emphasised the urgency of the campaign, noting that millions of lives are mislaid each twelvemonth to preventable diseases specified arsenic diarrhoea and pneumonia, illnesses that could beryllium avoided done due manus hygiene.

“Children are particularly vulnerable, and successful communities similar Ijora, entree to accordant hygiene facilities and cognition remains a situation we indispensable code together,” helium added.

Also, the Brand Manager for Dettol Nigeria, Ayomide Bello, reinforced the brand’s committedness to nationalist health, saying, “At Dettol, we judge that bully hygiene is much than a habit, it is simply a right, a responsibility, and a corporate commitment.”