Dettol celebrates health, hygiene by donating handwash centers and borehole on Global Handwashing Day 2016

The Global Handwashing Day is an annual
global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and building the Handwashing habit.
Considered as the gold standard in germ
protection, Dettol has been committed
towards spreading the awareness around
hand hygiene amongst children across the
globe.
Dettol, one of Nigeria’s leading brands, led
the 2016 Global Handwashing Day by
launching a nationwide campaign themed
“Small Acts, Big Impact”,which aims to
reach out to millions of people and educate
them about the importance of handwashing.
The campaign is simultaneously running in
over 19 countries and envisions to create
the big impact of saving millions of lives.
In celebration of the 2016 Global Handwashing Day, Dettol organized a
Handwashing event where they donated
Handwashing sites and a Borehole to United Christian Nursery & Primary school Apapa, Lagos. Previously, the school had no running water for the children to wash their hands and this could easily be a cause for
infection.The event was in partnership with
the Association of Community Pharmacists, Apapa Zone, and had a huge turnaround of
children from different schools in the Apapa
LGA.
Speaking at the event, the Managing
Director, RB West Africa, Rahul Murgai
stated that “in RB, our global vision is to
provide the world with innovative solutions and products for healthier lives and happier
homes. Dettol has been the trusted champion for good health and hygiene for over 50 years in Nigeria. We believe that it’s important to inculcate good habits at an early age. A simple act of washing your hands with soap can prevent illness and diarrhoea related deaths if we truly want to achieve the millennium development goal of a Clean and Healthy Nigeria. The Global Handwashing Day gives us the opportunity to leverage a larger eco system and an awareness platform to achieve this objective”
Speaking further at the event, Marketing
Director, RB West Africa, Aliza Leferink said
“thedonation of the Dettol Handwash site and Borehole to the school was to enable the school children and teachers cultivate proper handwashing habits that would ultimately reduce the risk of infections.Promoted on a wide enough scale, handwashing with soap
can be thought of as a ‘do-it-yourself’ solution against preventable illnesses because it is easy, effective, and affordable”.
Also present at the event, was the
Education Secretary, Apapa Local
Government Education Authority,
HonorableDosumuOlabanji, the Zonal
Coordinator, Association of Community
Pharmacists of Nigeria, Apapa Zone, and
Mrs. Chituo Agulannawho thanked Dettol for taking the lead in coming forward to educate children and donating the Handwash centers in Apapa.
Dettol in Nigeria has consistently endeavored to create mass awareness among mothers
and children. In the last 6 years, they have
reached out to over 6 million Nigerian
children and mothers through their School
Hygiene Program and various other
initiatives inpartnership with the Ministry of
Health, Nigerian Medical Association and
Save the Children to create a Healthy
Nigeria and reduce Diarrhoea related deaths.
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