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Global Handwashing Day 2012 PSA

13 October 2012

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As part of our campaign to encourage more and more children to value health and hygiene, we bring you the Global Handwashing Day 2012 PSA!
Featuring DepEd Secretary Br. Armin Luistro, DOH Sec. Dr. Enrique Ona, and DSWD Sec. Corazon "Dinky" Soliman, this video is brought to you by the Global Handwashing Day Alliance.
Just like our beloved Secretaries, we promise to wash our hands with soap and water not just on Global Handwashing Day but always and everyday. Share this video with your friends and family and encourage them to make the promise too! :D
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As part of our campaign to encourage more and more children to value health and hygiene, we bring you the Global Handwashing Day 2012 PSA!

Featuring DepEd Secretary Br. Armin Luistro, DOH Sec. Dr. Enrique Ona, and DSWD Sec. Corazon "Dinky" Soliman, this video is brought to you by the Global Handwashing Day Alliance.

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Philippines joins Global Handwashing Day 2012 celebrations

12 October 2012

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This year's GHD celebration will be led by the Global Handwashing Day Alliance made up of the Department of Education, Department of Health, and Department of Social Welfare and Development as well as UNICEF, Fit for School, and GIZ and corporate partners Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, and Unilever.



From a one-day event, and now a much celebrated day, Global Handwashing Day (GHD) 2012 will be held at L.R. Pascual Elementary School in Baesa, Quezon City at 9 o'clock in the morning, simultaneously launching Department of Education's flagship, the Essential Health Care Program (EHCP), for Quezon City.

This year's event marks the first GHD alliance that includes government agencies, corporate partners such as Proceter & Gamble, Unilever, GlaxoSmithKliune, and other organizations like Fit for School, UNICEF, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

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Hygiene Program for the ‘Healthy City’

09 September 2012

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Partners and guests signed the Pledge of Commitment detailing the promise to continue implementing and sustaining the EHCP for the benefit of the children of Maasin City

 

Maasin City will indeed be a healthy city that is home to healthy children thanks to the local government, Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Maasin, and Fit for School teaming up for the strengthened implementation of DepEd’s Essential Health Care Program (EHCP).

The DepEd school-based hygiene program advocates daily group handwashing with soap, daily toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste, and twice yearly deworming.

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