A large number of students and teachers from Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) run schools participated in an awareness rally and participated in a seminar to mark ‘Global Hand Washing Day’ on Wednesday in the city.
The activities were aimed at making people aware for maintaining hygiene in their routine life and urged them to properly wash hands with soap as it’s a key approach to disease prevention, a RMC press release issued here stated.
The students said that one should inculcate the habit of washing hands with soap before eating and after using the toilet as it’s the single most effective and inexpensive way to prevent disease like diarrhoea and Pneumonia, as automatic behaviour performed in homes, schools, and communities worldwide.
The rally commenced from J.R. Dani Girls Higher Secondary School and passed through from Kalibadi and RMC headquarter before returning to the school.Another activity was organised in RD Tiwari School, where a large number of school students and teachers participated in the seminar and expressed their views on the importance of hand washing.