Global Handwashing Day

Global Handwashing Day (GHD) is an international campaign that aims to raise awareness and understanding on the importance of handwashing with clean water and soap as a cost-effective way to prevent communicable diseases.  It is globally celebrated every October 15. 

Manila Water Foundation (MWF) has celebrated GHD for the past 6 years and each year, MWF brings together corporate, government and non-government and socio-civic organizations as partners in bringing the story to the public and targeted audiences of how important handwashing is to good health.
 

 

 

 

MWF celebrates GHD nationwide in schools and communities for the whole month of October.  It holds interactive and hands-on lectures, story-telling activities and educational games.

Institutions

Manila Water Foundation has celebrated Global Handwashing Day since 2013 and were held in the following institutions:

Impact

The GHD celebrations in 2016 alone reached 73, 970 attendees. In 2017, a total of since 2016 had a total of 4,720 attendees composed of students, parents, teachers, school staff and community residents.
 

 

 

While the events were held in different schools and establishments in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, IEC (Information, Education and Communication) materials were distributed on a national scale through different media outfits – print broadsheets, infomercials inside cinemas, digital and traditional bulletin boards along major highways and inside commercial malls and social media.
 

 

 

In 2018, Manila Water Foundation’s GHD campaign reached a total of 4.6 million people.