EDO State Government has launched the UNICEF-Assisted Hand Washing Campaign aimed at promoting good hygienic practices and reducing sanitation-related diseases.
Performing the official launch of the Campaign, the State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor observed that the campaign could not have come at a better time than this year which has been declared by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Year of Sanitation (IYS), describing the declaration as one of the ways of meeting the sanitation target as embedded in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) towards sustainable access to basic sanitation by 2015.
The Governor explained that the campaign focused on five key messages targeted at political leaders, policy makers and the populace.
He enumerated the messages as, sanitation is vital for human health; generates economic benefits; contributes to dignity and social development as well as helps the environment.
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