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The Golden Poo Awards

Dying to go to the loo...?
Here's a unique opportunity to draw attention to what is arguably, the most important global development issue of our time. It is also a great chance to establish or further your stand-up comedy career, using humour to disgust, shame, shock, inspire and motivate others to join in the global campaign for better sanitation provision in the lead up to World Toilet Day 2011.

Global Handwashing Day October 15th
Handwashing with soap is among the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrhoeal diseases and pneumonia, which are together responsible for the deaths of over 3.5m children before their 5th birthday, every year.
Although people around the world wash their hands with water, very few wash their hands with soap at critical moments eg after going to the toilet, cleaning a child or before handling or eating food.
The challenge is to transform handwashing with soap from an abstract idea into habitual behaviour performed in homes, schools, workplaces and communities worldwide. This would save more lives than any vaccine or medical intervention.
Global Handwashing Day is the centrepiece of a week of activities that will mobilise millions of people across five continents to wash their hands with soap.
The Golden Poo Awards are being co-sponsored by The Department for International Development (DfID), The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and PooP Creative.

Clean Hands Save Lives