According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), two out of every five schools worldwide lack essential handwashing facilities, thus exposing students to a multitude of diseases. Furthermore, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that unclean hands are the main mode of illness transmission in approximately 80 percent of cases, and bringing it home, the 2023 Kenya Economic Survey shows that in 2022, healthcare facilities reported four million cases of diarrheal diseases, with the majority of these cases affecting children.
Themmed ' clean hands are within reach' the campaign will run for a period of one month and will selected schools provided with water tanks and state or art washing stations in a bid to promote good hygiene to school kids.
Half of school going children in the world lack basic hygiene affecting more than seventeen billion kids across the globe.This made Detol provide top notch household hygiene products to promote hand washing culture.
The global hand washing day is celebrated every 15th October and this year it has coincided with Detol hand wash campaign,to ensure the success of this campaign, Dettol has partnered with Shining Hope for Communities (Shofco), a local advocacy organization that serves the needs of over 350,000 urban slum residents across ten different slum communities in three major cities in Kenya.
