As part of our commitment to Global Handwashing Day, Citron Hygiene are heading back to the classroom, raising awareness of the importance of handwashing in a fun and interactive presentation. The Global Handwashing Partnership, organisers of Global Handwashing Day, estimate that 1.7 million children globally die from preventable illnesses, such as diarrhoea & pneumonia, each year. This staggering number could be vastly reduced by the simple act of washing hands properly, a message that forms the basis of our school presentation.
Handwashing School Presentation
Written in easy to understand points, the presentation firstly highlights the key reasons why we should all wash our hands:
- Billions of bacteria live on your hands
- These bugs can make you poorly
- You can also pass these germs to other people you touch and make them poorly too
- The bugs transfer to any surfaces you touch.
It then goes on to list the most important times to wash your hands such as before eating, after going to the toilet, playing with pets or playing outside, and provides a seven-step guide to how to wash your hands properly. Included in this is the reminder that they need to make sure their washing them for long enough and that a good way to ensure this is by singing Happy Birthday twice as you wash – the perfect opportunity for a class sing-a-long!
Throughout the presentation the key message is that effective hand washing not only keeps you, your friends and family healthy, but that ultimately it can save lives. This is reinforced by the final slides of the presentation that combine two things that save lives, namely washing hands and superheroes! Therefore, the presentation concludes, “If you wash your hands you will be a Superhero!”
Find out more information on the importance of handwashing with soap and sanitising here
