Winners of Global Handwashing Day Slogan Contest

Many thanks to everyone who participated in the Global Handwashing Day Slogan contest and over 500 slogans were received. Below are slogans that received the most votes plus examples of other excellent slogans that were contributed:

• 1st place: Wash the hand that feeds you from Toni Sittoni, tsittoni@worldbank.org . Toni has 17 years’ experience as a media and communications practitioner in the development sector. He is currently the Africa Regional Communications Specialist for the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), a multi-donor partnership administered by the World Bank to support people in obtaining affordable, safe and sustainable access to water and sanitation services. WSP is involved in the Global Scaling up Handwashing Project which has the primary goal of learning about how to design and implement effective and sustainable handwashing behavior change interventions at large scale.
• 2nd place:  Give a child hope – wash hands with soap! from Sarah Bird, sarah@saafwater.com
• 3rd place:  Hands Up For Soap! from Andrew Maclean, a-maclean@dfid.gov.uk

 Below are some of the other slogans that were received:

• Germs Germs go away, soap is my friend, bhawna.vajpai@gmail.com
• Washed hands are caring hands!, jachang@usaid.gov
• Save family and neighbours; wash hands with soap, kamara.innocent@gmail.com
• GREAT! You have Washed Your Hands with Soap, btauzie@unicef.org
• Everybody lives from hand-to-mouth, wash hands before eating, amudgerikar@unicef.org
• Simple: wash your hands to kill germs, dmucunguzi@yahoo.com
• Wash your hands and drown the germs, jainyatish@yahoo.com
• Your Health is in your hands, balasubs@yahoo.com
• Farewell to filth, hello to health, sfujii@jat.co.jp
• A simple hand wash, keeps you always posh, kbudnur@yahoo.com
• Wash your hands everyday to keep diseases at bay, karishmakerkar@rediffmail.com
• Give soap a chance when washing your hands, louiseboke@gmail.com
• Soap washed hands equals good life & prosperity, kamara.innocent@gmail.com
• Be wise wash hands often, doctortvrao@gmail.com 
• Life is in your hands, wash them properly, np.wagle@gmail.com
• Hand washing is the gateway to health, sripriya.madurai@gmail.com
• Soap and water go hand in hand, book-m-dano@msn.com
• Happiness is… clean hands and good health, rebawray@yahoo.com
• Washed Hands are Hands to be proud of, cnsubugamugga@worldbank.org 
• Clean hands ; sound bodies, moishe11fr@yahoo.fr