Global Hand Washing Day

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Coinciding with International Hand Washing Day, Darla school celebrated Hand Washing day for three consecutive days. The school Health Committee invited HA of Darla Gewog to say a few words on the importance of washing hands. He highlighted a number of people dying due to not cleaning their hands. He also talked to the assembly of students and teachers, that, the main cause of any disease is not willing to wash their hands properly. Global Hand Washing Day underscores the importance of handwashing regularly with soap and water as one of the most effective and affordable health interventions. Hand washing helps to fight against many kinds of diseases and stay healthy. I feel the literal meaning of clean hand means washing away, it would also mean clean hand from stealing, touching unwanted things. In fact, we need a clean mind, so that we can have clean hands.

Anyways, there are many programs for the days. There are hand washing demos by class XB today. There are twelve techniques shown. And there is hand washing for every class.  Every class was asked to bring jerry cans and make T-P holes (tap holes) for the days and to be kept for the year. We did.

Here are some snapshots of what’s happening now:

My class IV B students

Jerrycans with T-P holes