Hands holding on World Hand-Wash Day today

WE HAVE come across different days that are celebrated around the globe. To add to the glory of International Year of Sanitation (IYS) 2008, World Hand-Wash Day is being celebrated on October 15.

The practice of hand-washing with soap, tops the international hygiene agenda and global Hand-Wash Day spotslights on this important issue.

A mere hand-wash with soap can save thousands of innocent children from death in the country. It may sound incredible, but the fact is that washing hands with soap can prevent diseases like diarrhea, pneumonia, cholera, dysentery, that kills forty one children every minute in India.

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