Hand Washing: So Important, It Gets a Day Of Its Own

Transcript of radio broadcast:  This is the VOA Special English Health Report.  Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap.

For example, private donors will give one hundred fifty thousand bars of soap to schools in Ethiopia. The Education Ministry wants one million schoolchildren to wash their hands for Wednesday’s event.  (…)

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