Global Handwashing Day Theme – Check the Latest Theme, History, and Importance of The Day

On October 15th, Global Handwashing Day is celebrated every year. The 2022 Global Handwashing Day theme is “Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene.” Global Handwashing Day is a yearly call, committed to spreading that handwashing with soap is an affordable, effortless, constructive way to save lives by preventing diseases.

• In 2008, The first Global Handwashing Day was held. In 70 countries, over 100 million children were made to wash their hands on this day, to promote awareness.
• Various Organizations use this Day to spread awareness about handwashing by building portable sinks and tippy taps and showing the simplicity and merits of cleaning hands.
• This Handwashing Day is promoted by different agencies and organizations like schools, NGOs, governments, etc as a part of their responsibility.

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Global Handwashing Day Theme 2022

The 2022 Global Handwashing Day theme is “Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene.”

The day is to remind us that handwashing with soap and water is one of the best steps we can take to stop the spread of germs, and prevent ourselves from getting sick. Each year on this day, the CDC works with world partners to underline Global Handwashing Day and raise consciousness about the need and value of cleaning with soap and water.

The 2022 theme, “Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene,” calls for synchronized action toward worldwide hand hygiene.

Global Handwashing Day Theme History

The First Global Hand Washing Day focus was school children. In that year, the members took an oath to get the maximum number of school children handwashing with soap, as a result, over 120 million students washed their hands in more than 70 countries on that day. The Day was initiated by the Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) in August 2008 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden. The year 2008 was declared the International Year of Sanitation. The founding members involved in proposing and materializing the day were :

• UNICEF
• World Bank Water & Sanitation Program
• FHI360 (an NGO for Human Development based in the US)
• US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Procter & Gamble
• Unilever
• United States Agency for International Development

2022 Global Handwashing Day Importance

Handwashing Day is celebrated to promote consciousness of the need to wash hands with soap. Various activities on this day encourage children to take it as a sport, which helps them develop a habit.

Diarrhoea accounts for almost 1.2 million child deaths annually around the globe.

Pneumonia, an acute respiratory infection, is the number one cause of death among kids under five years. This ARI kills 1.8 million kids every year.

Handwashing with soap and water is projected to bring down diarrhoea cases by 30% and respiratory infections by 21% in children under the age group of five. It is also a very effective and inexpensive way to prevent kids from diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections.

Proper hygiene and routine cleaning of hands with soap before food, after touching any surface, or after the toilet is the perfect and easiest way to bring down deaths by half in cases of diarrhoea and one-fourth in ARI cases.

Global Handwashing Day 2022 Theme Activities

1. Local Activity: On this Day, raise awareness by doing campaigns. Collaborate with the local body to promote the importance of washing hands. Organize events.
2. Post on social media: Share on your social media platforms. Talk about the importance, write quotes, and put facts and figures to make the youths realize the pros and cons.
3. Hand washing practice: Always wash your hands with soap especially before meals and cooking, after touching any foreign object, and after using toilets.

Global Handwashing Day 2022 Theme in Hindi (ग्लोबल हैंडवाशिंग डे थीम २०२२ )

२०२२ के ग्लोबल हैंडवाशिंग डे की थीम “यूनाइट फॉर यूनिवर्सल हैंड हाइजीन” है।

यह दिन हमें याद दिलाने का है कि साबुन और पानी से हाथ धोना कीटाणुओं के प्रसार को रोकने और खुद को बीमार होने से बचाने के लिए सबसे अच्छे कदमों में से एक है। प्रत्येक वर्ष इस दिन, सीडीसी वैश्विक हाथ धोने के दिवस को रेखांकित करने के लिए विश्व भागीदारों के साथ काम करता है और साबुन और पानी से सफाई की आवश्यकता और मूल्य के बारे में जागरूकता बढ़ाता है।

2022 की थीम, “यूनिवर्सल हैंड हाइजीन के लिए एकजुट”, दुनिया भर में हाथ की स्वच्छता की दिशा में समन्वित कार्रवाई का आह्वान करती है।

Global Handwashing Day Hindi Quotes

• जागरूक रहें, देखभाल के साथ हाथ धोएं।
• अपने हाथ धोना मतलब रोगाणु को दफनाना।
• गंदा मत बनो, स्वच्छ रहो, भोजन करने से पहले अपने हाथ धो लो।
• हम सब का एक ही नारा, साफ सुथरा हो देश हमारा।

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