Me and my Little Angels had pledged to wash our hands with soap to Stay Healthy at Global Handwashing Day with Lifebuoy at Kidzania last Saturday on 17th October, 2015. Good hand washing protects against the spread of many illness from the common cold to more serious illnesses meningtis, flu, hepatitis A and most types of infectious diarrhea.
In conjunction with the 8th
Global Handwashing Day, Unilever Malaysia’s leading health soap Lifebuoy is gathering
Malaysians to pledge for good hand hygiene by practicing proper handwashing
techniques. A great lesson for my Little Angels to learn on that day.
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Lifebuoy volunteers demonstrated proper techniques in handwashing with soap to families. |
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Mommy and her little daughter were so happy as the hands of the little girl were all cleaned after washing and proven by the UV light. No more germs in the hand. Yeah... |
Lifebuoy, the world’s
leading health soap, is taking on the fight against germs by educating families
on the importance of proper handwashing techniques. As a proud supporting partner of the Global
Handwashing Day Campaign, Lifebuoy is playing its part to improve the health
and well-being of Malaysians - one handwash at a time through its behavioral
change initiative.
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Mr Rakesh Mohan, Unilever Chairman of Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos |
“This initiative
brings to life our company’s philosophy of “Doing Well
by Doing Good”. I am extremely proud of Lifebuoy’s involvement as a founding
partner of Global Handwashing Day. As part of the
Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP), we aim to help 1 billion people by
2020 to improve their health and well-being. Lifebuoy is playing a key role in
helping us achieve this mission by spreading awareness on the importance of
handwashing and empowering mothers to lead behavioural change in their family,” said Rakesh Mohan,
Unilever Chairman of Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos.
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Choral speaking participant from SK Putrajaya Presint 14 performing their routine which features 7 steps in handwashing thoroughly |
At the celebration, Unilever volunteers along with students and their families came together for the launch of this fight against germs. The event kicked off with the “Doktor Muda” choral speaking students who performed their handwashing themed piece. To encourage families to practise what they have learnt from the campaign, Lifebuoy offered many stationed handwashing push carts where attendees were able to experience proper hand washing methods as a family.
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Appreciation award to the teacher of SK Putrajaya Presint 14 who had taught the children well and giving a great performance to all the audience in a creative way |
This is the fifth
consecutive year the Ministry of Health is partnering with Lifebuoy for “Program
Doktor Muda Bersama Lifebuoy”. This is yet another ongoing behavioural
change programme with one hundred selected primary schools nationwide, where
students who are selected as the “Doktor Muda” will undergo special training on
the basics of healthcare by completing exercises and learning modules set by
the Ministry. Launched in March 2011, the Doktor Muda
programme aims at empowering students to promote and influence good hygiene
behaviour amongst their peers and even family members. Lifebuoy recognizes that
peer-to-peer education instils a sense of responsibility in the children by
giving them the right set of tools and knowledge for them to spread a good deed
to their peers and family. This programme has reached out to over 250,000
children in Malaysia to date.
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Lifebuoy Establishment at Kidzania which located at the upper level and near to Air Asia Establishment |
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At the Establishment, children will learn about the importance of keeping their hands clean and researching the ingredients that goes into liquid soap to making a concoction of Lifebuoy soap |
This year, as part of the
Global Handwashing Day initiative, Lifebuoy is gathering pledges from mothers
and families to increase
awareness on the importance of the simple act of handwashing. Targeted at empowering
mothers, this behavioral change initiative looks to educate Malaysians on
handwashing techniques to protect and safeguard families from potential
infections.
To support this cause, all you have to do is take a picture of you and your
family pledging to practice good handwashing habits and post it up with the
hashtag #LifebuoyGHD2015.
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(From left to right) Mr Vincent Chong, Marketing Director for Unilever Malaysia, YB Dato' Seri Dr. Hilmi Bin Haji Yahaya the Deputy Minister of Healthy, Mr Rakesh Mohan and Alias, Senior Organiser, Ministry of Education Malaysia officiating the Global Handwashing Day |
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VIPs pledging to practice good handwashing habits during Lifebuoy Global Handwashing Day 2015 |
Officiating the event, YB Dato' Seri Dr. Hilmi Bin Haji Yahaya the Deputy Minister of Health said; “Global Handwashing Day is a global movement to foster and support a local culture of handwashing with soap. It is a day for us to shine a spotlight on the multiple benefits of the practice, which include being the most effective and cheapest means of preventing diarrheal and acute respiratory infections. While the government is committed to improving the health service delivered to every Malaysian, this is a cause that requires a collaborative effort. The habit of handwashing needs to be championed consistently from multiple sources, and this is why we are proud to partner Lifebuoy, an organisation whose goals are aligned with ours.”
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YB Dato' Seri Dr. Hilmi Bin Haji Yahaya the Deputy Minister of Healthy |
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VIPs with Unilever executives learning to wash their hands the right way with Lifebuoy aiming to encourage Malaysian families to wash hands with soap to stay and live healthy |
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Their hands now were all clean. Just less than 1 minute of washing with Lifebuoy |
Lifebuoy runs
the world’s largest hygiene behaviour change programme and has already reached
over 257 million people across 24 countries since 2010. As a continuous effort
to expand Lifebuoy’s outreach programmes, Lifebuoy Malaysia has again tied up
with the Ministry of Health and Education to craft a more extensive school
programme. Lifebuoy will adopt selected schools in rural areas as part of its
on-going efforts to empower kids to take care of their overall hygiene starting
with handwashing. These kids will be provided the necessary tools to practice
good hand hygiene and the knowledge and drive to make handwashing part of their
everyday routine. This programme will be undertaken next year and will play a
key role in contributing to Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan in which
Lifebuoy is aiming to change the handwashing behaviour of one billion people by
2020.
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YB Dato' Seri Dr. Hilmi and Alias receiving tokens of appreciation from Unilever Lifebuoy for their continuous support of the Program Doctor Muda bersama Lifebuoy |
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Proper handwashing techniques in conjunction to Global Handwashing Day 2015 |
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The Volunteer put some germs on my Little Angel, WH's hand |
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From the UV light, the germs can be seen but without the light, we can't see any germs. Sometimes we might think that our hands are clean to take the food and put inside our mouth but think twice now. |
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Volunteer taught WH the correct techniques to wash hands with Lifebuoy soap. Make sure the soap get in between the fingers and under the nails where germs like to hang out and don't forget the wrists |
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After that rinse well with water and dry it up with towel |
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And WH's hands are all clean. No more germs can be seen through the UV light. Yeah.... |
Thanks to Lifebuoy for the invitation to witness the launch of the Global Handwashing Day. My Little Angels had learned the correct techniques and the importance of washing our hands to stop germs from spreading. We pledge to make it a regular hand washing rule for everyone to stay healthy. Don't underestimate the power of handwashing as the few seconds spend might save you trips to the doctor's office. Happy Global Handwashing Day to all my readers here.
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For their efforts to keep their hands clean always by washing with Lifebuoy, all children went home happily with lollipop and a stationery set. WT show off his reward. Tqvm Lifebuoy for the lessons and the rewards |
Didn't know there's a stage area in Kidzania to do product launches. Must be a new edition cause last round I check, not many spaces that fit adult sizes. HAHA
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ReplyDeleteIt's great to get to play in Kidzania again!~ Do wash our hands more with the current breakout!~ Important awareness!
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ReplyDeleteUgh. Now im concern on the germs on my hand 😠time to get some soap out
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ReplyDeleteIt was really important to wash our hand to maintain our hygience. Since there are typloid fever around and haze some more, Lifebouy is the best!
ReplyDeleteIt is important to instill good values from young and hygiene is the best to start early.
ReplyDeleteGood info! Thank you for sharing, now with typhoid on the rise, we need to be more mindful of our habits now :)
ReplyDeleteI never try out their product yet, but this is very good event to educate how important to keep clean and maintain hygiene everyday to avoid sickness.
ReplyDeletekidzania! cant remember the last time i was there. good event, to teach kids how to wash their hands in a proper way.
ReplyDeleteAlways love Lifebuoy. Thanks for sharing. A very great event!
ReplyDeleteDon't be surprise that many adults don't really practice the hand hygiene :(
ReplyDeleteI like this type of events for the children. It is more interactive than just give speeches.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid my parents are always showing me how to wash my hands properly. This is a great initiative to teach kids in this generation.
ReplyDeleteit's so fun eh to have the event inside kidzania, im sure the kids really enjoyed themselves while learning about hand washing too!
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