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This morning, I was delighted to meet the pupils, educators, and community health leaders at Oduduwa Primary School, Lagos, as we formally commenced Year Three, Phase Two of The Wellbeing Foundation Africa – Dettol Nigeria Hygiene Quest Program and Curicula, a vital flagship initiative within our social impact partners Reckitt Nigeria’s Clean Naija Campaign.
A comprehensive personal social health and economic education system delivered in our schools, to date we have reached over 269,000 students with foundational knowledge, daily hygiene habits and best-practice routines, tackling the root causes of preventable illness by reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, trachoma, and other waterborne diseases, advancing menstrual hygiene management to enable more girls to remain in school with confidence, and supporting the eradication of open defecation, a critical frontier in safeguarding both public health and human dignity, as we continue to empower a generation equipped not only with WASH literacy but with the tools to live, learn, and lead in healthier, more resilient communities.
Efforts through The Wellbeing Foundation Africa – Dettol Nigeria Hygiene Quest Program are yielding measurable impact, reducing school absenteeism due to illness, strengthening infection prevention and control practices across communities, and improving maternal and newborn outcomes through sustained WASH engagement in healthcare facilities, while embedding climate wellbeing education alongside hygiene to foster intergenerational understanding.
We will continue to deliver with consistency, integrity, and ambition, because every child deserves to learn in a clean, safe, and healthy environment; every mother deserves the knowledge to protect her newborn from preventable illness; every healthcare worker deserves the tools to uphold infection prevention standards; and every community deserves access to the hygiene education that safeguards public health and strengthens national development from the ground up.
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