PANO – The Thai Nguyen provincial centre for rural water supply and sanitation (pCERWASS), in association with EAST Vietnam, will organize the Global Hand-washing Day at two primary schools in Ky Phu and Van Tho communes, Thai Nguyen province, on October 15th, from 8am to 10am.

According to UNICEF, 1,400 children under 5 die each day from diarrhea due to the lack of clean water, sanitation and hygiene. Therefore, it is important to raise the awareness of this issue among children and people, including the promotion of simple, but effective practices such as handwashing.

The Global Hand-washing Day aims to help children learn more about the importance and right way of handwashing, as well as when to wash their hands.

Translated by Chung Anh