October 15 is celebrated as Global Handwashing Day to advocate the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and inexpensive way to avoid diseases. This day is an opportunity to encourage and urge more and more people to wash their hands with soap.

• Global Handwashing Day was founded by the Global Handwashing Partnership to design, test, and replicate creative ways to encourage people to wash their hands with soap. The first Global Handwashing Day was held in 2008.
• The theme for 2022 Global Handwashing Day theme is “Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene” which calls for coordinated action as we actively work toward universal hand hygiene.