Global Handwashing Day

15th October 2017

QANDIL in partnership with UNHCR has conducted some activities at each schools and kindergartens at

ARC Arbat Refugee Camp the activities were as following;

1- promotional boards hanged to all bath walls in the schools and kindergartens inside ARC.

2- Conducted a Promotional Drama with Global sign characters which is the soap, hand and drop

of water.

3- The right way of hand washing with song and dancing presented.

4- Practical handwashing conducted by using soap and water.

5- Gathering residents by calling them with megaphone to watch the activity of Practical hand

washing in the alleys.

The table contain the information of the places and participant numbers:

Location Male participated Female participated

Amuda School 149 96

Amuda School UNICEF 85 95

KSC Kindergarten 33 32

STEP Kindergarten 23 15

Totally 528 children got benefit from our activities.

1-Painted boards hanged on the walls of the baths were to affection in schools and kindergartens.

2- The paintings boards included the correct methods of washing hands, followed by the

children's instructions in practice and applying the correct method of washing hands on the

hanging plates.

3- We gathered all the students in the schools and kindergartens square and presented the

children's A Short Promotional Drama on how to keep the hands clean in a comic way to ask

the children to obey them with information about washing their hands properly.

4- The dance and music were presented to educate the children on how to wash hands

with the applied movements for all the correct steps and apply them with the

participation of school children and kindergartens.

6- Hand washing was applied in practice with the correct steps with soap and water in front of all

students in the schools and kindergartens.

4- We gathered the residents with the calling by megaphones to watch our activity on

Handwashing with dancing and music, with proper steps to wash our hands with

soap and water, and we asked the children to practice what they learned from the

activity.