On the occasion of the World Handwashing Day, the SSSD WASH team at al-Hameh, Rural Damascus, carried out an activity on hand hygiene entitled the Hygiene Train, which targeted a primary school. The event included various “stations,” each of which teaches the children the proper way and times of handwashing. “Stations” included puppet theater, drawing and coloring, hygiene cheers, a video clip about hand hygiene, face coloring, dancing with cartoon characters, singing and, to crown it all, practical handwashing. The team formed “trains” of children, each train stopping at a “station,” with all children getting off at all stations. The children and school teachers joyfully welcomed the event, at the end of which a bar of soap and a towel were offered to each of the beneficiaries, totaling 200 people.

The SSSD WASH team of al-Hameh CC, Rural Damascus, effectuated a visit to a primary school in the district. It was agreed with the administration to organize a Cleanest Classroom competition among the school classrooms. The students would clean up their classrooms and care too about the cleanliness of their clothes and bodies for a whole week. The prize consisted in a recreational activity that included games, dancing and singing with cartoon characters. The winning classroom was also rapturously honored before all students by offering them a “cleanliness cup.” In the end, bars of soap were distributed as a present to 750 students in order to encourage them pay attention to the cleanliness of their school, as well as to their personal hygiene.