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Hand washing with finesse

(April 15, 2020) Experts agree. Wash your hands. It’s the best defence against the novel coronavirus, and other germs. We’ve all heard the instructions. For inspiration, here’s some examples of how the pros do it. International Hand Washing Day was declared by UNICEF in 2008. Photos courtesy of UNICEF.

May 2019. Diosso primary school. Diosso is located some 25 kms away from the city of Pointe Noire, Republic of the Congo.
Photo: Giacomo Pirozzi
Theodette, 3, washes her hands with soap surrounded by her friends near their home-based ECD centre in Ngororero District, Rwanda.
Photo: Isaac Rudakubana
A young boy washing his hands at his school (made out of plastic bricks), in the village of Toumodi-Sakassou, in the center of Côte d’Ivoire.
Photo: Frank Dejongh
Children washing hands in primary school of Ifarantsa- Anosy region of Madagascar.
Photo: Abela Ralaivita
March 9, 2020: Children wash their hands with soap at a UNICEF-supported learning centre in the Kutupalong campa (within the Rohingya refugee camp), in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Photo: Suman Paul Himu
At the primary school in Sintchan-Farba, Guinea Bissau, a pupil washes her hands (at the toilets newly built by UNICEF). 
January 16, 2020.
Photo: Prinsloo
Children wash their hands at taps installed by Unicef at the primary school in the small village of SintchanFarba, Guinea Bissau, January 16, 2020.
Photo: Prinsloo
Children washing their hands at their school made out of plastic bricks, in the village of Toumodi-Sakassou, in the
center of Côte d’Ivoire.
Photo: Frank Dejongh
A young student washes her hands as part of a demonstration during Global Handwashing Day in Beni, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo on 15 October 2019.
Photo: Thomas Nybo
Theodette, 3 (left), and Shania, 4 (right) wash their hands with soap surrounded near their home-based ECD centre in Ngororero District, Rwanda.
Photo: Isaac Rudakubana

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