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Nigeria’s leading hygiene brand Dettol, through its
flagship Clean Naija Initiative, a campaign designed to create awareness,
educate and drive behavioural change to achieve a cleaner and healthier Nigeria
has partnered with the Lagos State Government through the Office of Sustainable
Development Goals and Investment, on a campaign to educate primary school
children within the State on how to stay protected from infectious diseases,
such as the Coronavirus and Lassa Fever.
According to the WHO, “Good hygiene is an important
barrier to many infectious diseases, and it promotes better health and
well-being”. This has driven Dettol’s commitment to spreading the message of
good hygiene practices among Nigerians, and
has given birth to various initiatives, programmes and social investment
activities across the country.
Recently, the hygiene education team were at St Mary’s
Convent school Lagos Island, Lagos, and over 500 school pupils were taught on
how to prevent the transmission of respiratory illnesses, and proper hand
hygiene.
Speaking at the session, The General Manager, RB West
Africa, Mr. Dayanand Sriram, stated, “Our health is in our hands. Hand washing
a few times during the day prevents a lot of illnesses. In light of the panic
around Coronavirus, what we can do individually is to carry out preventive
actions and constant hand hygiene is one of the most important ones in the
fight against communicable diseases. RB is proud to partner with the Lagos
State Government, and our goal is to reach 50,000 children in 20 local
government areas of the state.”
Also speaking at the event, The Special Adviser for
Sustainable Development Goals, Lagos State Government, Mrs. Solape Hammond,
also added that, “This is a year in which Lagos State Government has decided to
focus on SDG6 and SDG3 which relate to the health and environment pillars. It’s
very important that sanitation and wellbeing are taken very seriously. Now with
what is going on with Coronavirus, we know that it is a disease that is easily
communicable, but the chances of its spread are greatly reduced when people
wash their hands, so we are encouraging every Lagosian out there to adopt these
hygiene practices.”
Through the School Hygiene Programme, Dettol uses
teaching aids and fun activities to educate school children on good hygiene
practices and various ways that they can protect themselves against germs. Over
the past 7 years, Dettol has educated over 5 million children and teachers
through it’s School Hygiene Program.
As part of its commitment to encourage healthy hygiene
practices among Nigerians in 2020, Dettol is partnering with more public sector
organizations to deliver hygiene education as a strategy to drive hygiene
behaviour change in Nigeria.
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