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Initial Hygiene and 'Hands on Hygiene'
In 2008, Initial Hygiene in co-operation with the United Nations (UN) launched a major Global Initial Sanitation campaign. The aim were to increase awareness for global sanitation issues with business communities and the general public.
The campaign “Hands on Hygiene” reflects Initial Hygiene’s collective efforts to help create a better, safer and cleaner world.
Initial’s announcement came during the UN’s International Year of Sanitation. Highlighting conditions faced by a third of the world’s population – 2.6 billion people. Those with no access to clean water, soap or basic sanitation. The resulting poor hygiene is responsible for millions of deaths, particularly amongst children in developing countries every year:
- Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation
- 2.6 billion people have no access to clean water, soap or basic sanitation
- 1.8 million people die each year from diarrhoea and over 90 per cent of them are children under five
- Simple hand hygiene can save lives
Hands on Hygiene across New Zealand
Since 2007, Initial Hygiene have collaborated with MAF (Food Safety) formerly known as New Zealand Food Safety Authority. Initial have gone to schools throughout New Zealand and conducted hand hygiene programmes with the aim of educating young New Zealanders about the importance of hand hygiene - and the big difference it can have on their health.
We’re going back to school 2011
Initial will be back at schools during Food Safety's Lunchbox Day 2011, to drive home the subject of hand hygiene.
This year, Initial will be supplying schools with a box of hand sanitisers (12 in each box), to assist in promoting hand hygiene. We will also be holding a colouring competition where students have a chance to win their very own educational hamper.
To encourage the children with their learning, Initial is providing a fun interactive website game called ‘Mission Clean Hands.’ It is aimed at 5 to 10 year olds. The students that complete each level, will receive a diploma which they can print out for themselves – where they learn some very valuable lessons about hand hygiene.
Check out www.missioncleanhands.com/nz and have a go yourself!
COMPETITION DETAILS: We’re turning hand hygiene into art
20 seconds wash + 20 seconds dry = Clean hands!
This year, we’re taking our hand hygiene education into schools nationwide with a colouring competition. As an incentive, students who take part have a chance to win an educational hamper, filled with books, games, book marks and much more.
Initial is proud of their ongoing partnership with Save the Children. Save the Children wants to help enforce Initial's Mission on Hands message of ensuring that children understand the importance of hand washing as part of their personal hygiene routine. Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. Its vision is a world in which, children have the right to survival, protection, development and participation. This year Save the Children is offering a competition on their interactive website Do One Thing, details on this can be seen below.
School students
Primary schools students will be invited to call on their artistic skills by entering a colouring competition promoting good hand hygiene. To make sure everyone’s involved, there will also be a competition run by Save the Children, to go in the draw to win their very own bean bag. You can choose either competition to enter!
Send all your Initial Hygiene Colouring entries to:
Food Safety Competition
c/o Rentokil Initial Limited
Private Bag 92905
Onehunga
Auckland 1643
Attention: Meleane Kaufusi
To enter the Save the Children Competition for your very own Bean Bag visit: www.do1thing.org.nz
Entries close on Monday, 30th May 2011
Should you have any queries please email: meleane.kaufusi@initial.co.nz
Lunchbox Day 2011
Lunchbox Day is organised by the MAF Food Safety. It is made up of representatives from Food Safety, the food industry and consumer groups.
As part of Lunchbox Day 2011, primary school students around the country will get hands on experience, with hand hygiene thanks to Initial Hygiene’s ‘Hands on Hygiene’ programme.
As a Food Safety member, Initial Hygiene has launched this initiative to teach Kiwi children about the importance of washing their hands. The nationwide programme will be rolled out to over 60 schools around the country.
Other Initial Hygiene initiatives during the programme include: competitions and an interactive website to help send home the golden rules of food safety in the home – clean, cook, cover, chill – along with the all-important 20+20 hand washing rule.
"We’re going back to schools, to teach kids how to wash their hands properly. The aim being to stop the spread of diseases and spread the word about the 20+20 rule – washing hands with soap for 20 seconds then drying them for 20 seconds to ensure they are bacteria-free," says Geoff Polkinghorne, Managing Director, Rentokil Initial Limited, New Zealand and Fiji.
"Hand washing is a bit of a boring subject for kids, so we have come up with a variety of fun, interactive activities to interest and engage them – getting them excited about hand hygiene. Our ‘Hands on Hygiene’ programme is 'kids friendly' and speaks to them in a language they understand. This programme will encourage them to remember the important points and hopefully carry on these behaviours into adulthood.”
For more information on the Partnership visit: www.foodsmart.govt.nz
