UK Global Handwashing Day Activities 2011

2011's Global Handwashing Day activities include:

Creative Media Camp.
Led by the ideas foundation, teenagers embark upon a creative media camp to produce an online media campaign for Global Handwashing Day 2011.

The Brief
To produce a number of outputs targeting primary and secondary school students, including posters, animations, films and teaching materials that aim to raise awareness of the importance of washing hands with soap. Click here to learn more about the Creative Media Camp 2011.

The Outcome
Creative Media Camp 2011 created 4 fantastic posters and 2 cool films to help spread the message. There were 13,000 Creative Media Camp posters distributed among workplaces in the UK.


Download The Posters ( Click images)

   

View Movie - 'Habit'

 

Mobile Poo Map of Britain.
“Mobile phones can harbor on average 18 times more living bacteria than a flush on a gents’ toilet” (Which? Right, 2010).

The Brief
Using microbial profiling, this study aims to document the microbiological state of mobile phones around Britain, as a vivid demonstration of the need to wash hands with soap.
Click here to see the E.Coli totals map
Click here to see the total bacterial loads map
(Please note, further analysis must be done to reach scientific conclusions.)

The Outcome
The Mobile Poo Map of Britain sampled the hands and phones of nearly 400 people across the UK and showed how phones act to spread disease. The subsequent press release created a sizeable ‘media storm’ with the headline ‘1 in 6 mobiles contaminated with E. coli’. We hit around 200 articles worldwide, not to mention the many radio and TV interviews about the research with Dr. Val Curtis and Dr. Ron Cutler.

 

Be a Real Friend.
School children are an important vehicle for influencing behaviour change in the population. If we can get the next generation to change their behaviour, they will unknowingly contribute to population behaviour change in future generations by passing on their better hygiene habits.

The Brief
To deliver a simple hygiene message to all school children using newsletters, posters, role-plays and animations.

The Outcome
School Councils UK reached out to nearly 30,000 UK schools with a hygiene-based role-play!

 

I Dare You.
'I Dare You' is a bold and engaging way for handwashing with soap to become a strong topic of conversation among all children at home and at school.

The Brief
To inform over 1 million First News readers about Global Handwashing Day 2011, talking to them throught the pages of First News and through our website in a fun but educational way.

The Outcome
First News circulated an additional 8,500 Creative Media Camp posters around UK primary and secondary schools and subsidised a full page advertorial, which reached over 1 million young readers.

Download The Poster ( Click image)




View Movie - 'I Dare You'