December 2024

Clean Hands, Healthy Futures: Celebrating Global Handwashing Day with Children

This year, Global Handwashing Day wasn’t just a date on the calendar for Bengaluru’s waste-picking communities—it became a movement. On October 15, our partners Sparsha Trust and WaterAid India joined forces with children, community mobilisers, and CRPs (Community Resource Persons) across 40 localities to answer a critical question: “Why are clean hands still important?”

Through a series of engaging training sessions and activities, they highlighted the power of handwashing in maintaining hygiene, preventing illness, and ensuring the well-being of individuals and their communities.

Over the next few weeks, the campaign reached 995 participants, including 661 children from the waste-picking communities. These young advocates have since taken the message to their families and friends, spreading awareness and inspiring behavioural change within their communities.

However, handwashing and sanitation continue to remain a challenge in most informal communities in the city due to limited access to clean water, an issue our partner WaterAid India is working to address.

Photos by: Vinod Sebastian

 

PHOTO STORY

Children, accompanied by their mothers, attentively listen to community resource persons share about the importance of clean hands.
Children actively participated in a fun and engaging activity where clean water is first collected in their hands and passed along through a series of hands, eventually reaching a final container. As the water moves through unwashed hands, it becomes visibly contaminated, demonstrating how the transfer of water without proper hand hygiene can lead to the accumulation of dirt and germs.
A young mother demonstrates the correct handwashing technique, as taught during the handwashing activities. With careful attention to each step, she shows how to properly wash hands to ensure cleanliness and prevent the spread of germs, reinforcing the importance of good hygiene practices at home.
Children raise their hands high in the air, eager to show whether their hands are clean or not, before engaging in the activities that will teach them the proper handwashing techniques.
Fun activities and interactive moments set the stage for learning the importance of hygiene and handwashing.
With wide smiles, children proudly show their hands before [on the right] and after [on the left] participating in an activity that highlights their usual playtime, where they often touch the ground and soil.
Little hearts, big dreams! <3
December 2024

Clean Hands, Healthy Futures: Celebrating Global Handwashing Day with Children

This year, Global Handwashing Day wasn’t just a date on the calendar for Bengaluru’s waste-picking communities—it became a movement. On October 15, our partners Sparsha Trust and WaterAid India joined forces with children, community mobilisers, and CRPs (Community Resource Persons) across 40 localities to answer a critical question: “Why are clean hands still important?”

Through a series of engaging training sessions and activities, they highlighted the power of handwashing in maintaining hygiene, preventing illness, and ensuring the well-being of individuals and their communities.

Over the next few weeks, the campaign reached 995 participants, including 661 children from the waste-picking communities. These young advocates have since taken the message to their families and friends, spreading awareness and inspiring behavioural change within their communities.

However, handwashing and sanitation continue to remain a challenge in most informal communities in the city due to limited access to clean water, an issue our partner WaterAid India is working to address.

Photos by: Vinod Sebastian

 

PHOTO STORY

Children, accompanied by their mothers, attentively listen to community resource persons share about the importance of clean hands.
Children actively participated in a fun and engaging activity where clean water is first collected in their hands and passed along through a series of hands, eventually reaching a final container. As the water moves through unwashed hands, it becomes visibly contaminated, demonstrating how the transfer of water without proper hand hygiene can lead to the accumulation of dirt and germs.
A young mother demonstrates the correct handwashing technique, as taught during the handwashing activities. With careful attention to each step, she shows how to properly wash hands to ensure cleanliness and prevent the spread of germs, reinforcing the importance of good hygiene practices at home.
Children raise their hands high in the air, eager to show whether their hands are clean or not, before engaging in the activities that will teach them the proper handwashing techniques.
Fun activities and interactive moments set the stage for learning the importance of hygiene and handwashing.
With wide smiles, children proudly show their hands before [on the right] and after [on the left] participating in an activity that highlights their usual playtime, where they often touch the ground and soil.
Little hearts, big dreams! <3

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