.PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 15 October 2012
UNICEF and partners celebrate Global Handwashing Day annually on 15 October to underscore the importance of handwashing with soap – a simple, but life-saving, act of good hygiene. Handwashing with water alone is not sufficient to destroy many disease-causing pathogens, including those causing diarrhoea and pneumonia, two leading killers of children.
Women wash the hands of twin girls before a meal, in Plateau-Central Region of Burkina Faso.
©UNICEF/Olivier Asselin
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