 In the wake of the global hand washing day, a group has on the score the importance of the commemoration, especially in saving lives and disease prevention. These were the major throws at the sensitization of workers at the hotel here in Lagos. Plastic in these correspondents, Immanuel Lubberboken was at the sensitization program and now reports. The hand washing day is an international campaign aimed at promoting and hygiene worldwide. It emphasizes the importance of washing ends with soap and at critical points during the day. In 2008, GHD was celebrated for the first time with the aim of raising awareness and importance of hand washing to prevent diseases and infections. To commemorate the day, this organization is imparting the practice of cleanliness on its workers, with the belief that hand washing is a fourth step in reducing the spread of diseases. Citing the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Martins Isaac, the organization's managing partner of the size is the importance of hand washing and why they have embarked on this campaign. For us is that we're just trying to sensitize people and remind people on the importance of hand wash, you know, and you can see back in 2019, 2020 when we had the COVID-19, we all knew. At the meeting, I'm convinced I can take a micro term and aside the cobalt, keep our hands clean and that was the quickest and easiest way we were able to fight, you know, the COVID-19 and other germs that we deal with from time to time. Basically, our hands carry germs, you know, so and maybe it's just about someone serving your water with clean hands or hands that have germs in it here and you can easily get contaminated that way you can fetch your water, you drink the water. They say his government should not only be involved in setting up policies, but also in implementing them. Beyond policies, which I know in Nigeria we have good policies, I think one of the PCFs, the rehabilitation and surveillance contract, the group has reacted to our visions, the contract for the rehabilitation of potlents nationwide, they are voided to another oil cabal. Addressing a fresh brothen in Abuja, we have access to better water but when you go to the rural areas, you know, or people who don't have access to information, you know, it's quite a bit of a challenge. So beyond the government, you know, trying to assist and making policies, I think that we need to do more, you know, in terms of educating, in terms of sensitizing people, go to schools, teach children how to wash their hands, teach children about germs, you know, there should be a section that talks about preventive diseases, you know, it's a chance that, you know, we can prevent just by washing our hands. Some participants speak about involvement. Mostly people take hand washing for granted, but the recent COVID-19 pandemic is supposed to be a high hope now for everybody. Today we don't joke with the hegello, health, the hegello of cleanliness, there is a common say that cleanliness is next to godliness, and until we are conscious of this, honestly history may be repeating itself a million times, but of course, if we are all conscious that we have to keep our environment safe, then we can conquer a lot of challenges. We know germs, they don't have legs, they don't have hands. It is human beings that try to transport them from one place to another. So that is why washing of hands is important. We also said that your health is in your hands. If you don't wash your hands properly, it means wherever you have gone today, wherever micro-organizations are... We didn't prioritize the welfare of the student. There, national president of the Union's Court of Welfare made the call for an important help. He asked for companies to be... It also promotes the adoption of the simple yet impactful habit of washing with soap for everyone everywhere. Emmanuel Ulububukun, plus TV News. So you get notified about fresh news updates.