Our Health-Related Involvement
by James Smith on
More efforts. More cleanliness. More good lives.
Every child has the right to grow up in a clean and safe environment. Access to safe drinking water, basic toilets, and proper hygiene habits not only keeps children alive, but also offers them a healthier start in life.
Despite the fact that COVID-19 highlights the importance of hand hygiene in preventing disease transmission, three billion people globally, including hundreds of millions of school-aged children, lack access to soap-free handwashing facilities. The most susceptible and affected include people living in rural areas, urban slums, disaster-prone locations, and low-income countries.