Across Nigeria today, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa commemorated Global Handwashing Day 2025 under the theme Be A Handwashing Hero!, through coordinated WBFA – Dettol Nigeria Hygiene Quest activations in schools, health facilities, and community settings, supported by our social impact partners Reckitt Nigeria. These engagements reflect our continued investment in behaviour-centred hygiene education, local leadership, and health system strengthening.

Within our programming across Lagos State, Kwara State and Abuja FCT, the WBFA – Dettol Nigeria Hygiene Quest Ambassadors, Sanitation Angels, midwives, nurse educators, community health advocates, pupils, and teachers empowered through our Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Curriculum serve as peer educators and role models, advancing the daily practice of handwashing as a pillar of wellbeing. By linking school-based learning to family, community, and clinical environments, we are able to bridge the critical gap between knowledge and sustained behaviour, ensuring that the principles of hygiene, infection prevention, and dignity are upheld across every aspect of life, and embedding the culture of prevention at the core of maternal, newborn, child, adolescent and community health.

Through todays Global Handwashing Day 2025 activations, WBFA continues to demonstrate that effective health promotion requires alignment between curriculum, community, and clinical practice. When hygiene is taught early, reinforced often, and supported institutionally, it becomes the foundation of resilient public health.

 

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