“ The Arab Council for Social Responsibility and Unilever Egypt participate in the International Handwashing Day
”World Handwashing Day is held annually , It is a global awareness campaign in which more than 100 countries participate in the world, as it falls on the date of October 15 of each year, where the campaign aims to focus globally on the habit of washing hands with soap and eliminating habits that lead to disease and early death.
Unilever is One of the largest international companies producing consumer products, and more than two billion people use Unilever products every day.
"Lifeboy" company established a campaign for the International Handwashing Day in 2014, in cooperation with the Arab Council for Social Responsibility, to participate with students of Fahd Private School through its products
Unilever Mashreq, represented by "Lifeboy", organized the celebration of the International Handwashing Day in the past four years, and worked to spread awareness in the Arab Republic of Egypt along with the "Lifeboy School Awareness Program" campaign, which has so far reached more than 2.5 million students and is still continuing.
More than 4000 children participated in the celebration last year, who were sensitized to the importance of hand washing along with media coverage
World Handwashing Day has an important role in highlighting good practices in infection prevention and control, and in emphasizing the importance of handwashing and combating antibiotic-resistant microbes in health care.