10/15/2025
🌍 Global Handwashing Day – October 15
💧 Clean hands save lives!
Here are some eye-opening facts:
1. 🖐️ Handwashing with soap can reduce diarrheal diseases by up to 40%.
2. 🤧 It also cuts down respiratory infections by around 20%.
3. 🌡️ Despite its importance, only about 19% of the world’s population washes hands with soap after using the toilet.
4. 🧼 Proper handwashing lasts at least 20 seconds – about the time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice.
5. 🏫 Teaching children hand hygiene helps reduce school absences and spreads lifelong healthy habits.
6. 💊 Handwashing is one of the most effective ways to prevent antibiotic resistance by reducing the spread of infections.
7. 🌸 Global Handwashing Day was established in 2008 to promote the power of clean hands worldwide.
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