UNICEF: The Wiggles support Global Handwashing Day 2009 30"

NEW YORK, USA, 9 October 2009 Next Thursday, 15 October, marks the second annual Global Handwashing Day, which millions of children and adults will celebrate with special activities in over 80 countries.

Handwashing with soap and water is one of the most affordable and effective interventions to prevent needless deaths of children under the age of five. It helps reduces diarrhoea-related deaths by more than 40 per cent and cases of acute respiratory disease by about 25 per cent.

The promotion of handwashing with soap is also a key strategy for controlling the spread of the H1N1 virus another major focus of the planned events in many countries on 15 October.

Meanwhile, the popular Australian childrens entertainers, The Wiggles, have once again partnered with UNICEF to raise awareness about the importance of handwashing with soap.

Teaching children to wash their hands with soap and water from an early age helps instil this behaviour for life, says Murray the Red Wiggle. Handwashing with soap positively impacts children, families, communities and nations by reducing disease and increasing productivity."

To read more, visit http://www.unicef.org/wash/index_51375.html

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• H1N1
• swine
• flu
• children
• sanitation
• health

[psychokitty93]

Gotta love the wiggles :)

[hejustleft]

Which one is Captain Kirk?

[evanpingu]

they're getting on lol

[Princess2609]

What dorks lol

[ZOMGAPOTATO]

I watched the wiggles when I was a kid!