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Up to a million microbes could have touched your child's lunch before they do! Whilst you 8211; and they 8211; think that they're tucking into a healthy meal of roti and sabzi...

Global Hand-washing Day aims to control communicable fatal diseases and thus control mortality rate among children

Up to a million microbes could have touched your child8217;s lunch before they do! Whilst you 8211; and they 8211; think that they8217;re tucking into a healthy meal of roti and sabzi or daal and rice, chances are that they8217;re also likely to be swallowing germs that have the potential to make them sick, if they haven8217;t washed their hands with soap first.

A million microbes reach our children8217;s hands every day 8211; from their journey to school, the hands of their classmates, their books and desks in the classroom, the toilet. Though their little hands might look perfectly clean, they are likely to be squirming with someone else8217;s germs by the time they sit down for lunch.

Hands are the principal carriers of disease-causing and potentially life-threatening germs, causing diarrhoea, pneumonia, cholera and dysentery. But a simple hygiene habit 8211; washing hands with soap after the toilet and before lunch 8211; will help make sure these germs don8217;t enter your child8217;s body.

Global Hand-washing Day on October 15 is a platform to create a global culture of washing hands with soap. Lifebuoy, in partnership with the coalition, will be launching the inaugural Global Hand Wash Day in India on October 15 even as 20 other countries across five continents do the same across the world.

Every year, millions of children across the world don8217;t live to celebrate their fifth birthday. The objective of establishing Global Hand-washing Day is to control communicable fatal diseases like diarrhoea and pneumonia, a release issued here stated. Vision on Global Handwashing Day is to foster global and local culture of handwashing with soap, which is also the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrhoeal diseases and pneumonia.

Washing hands with soap is a significant contribution to meeting the UN Millennium Development goal of reducing death among children under age of five by two-third by 2015.