Global Handwashing Day is an international handwashing promotion campaign to spread awareness among the people in our world to improve their handwashing habits. Handwashing habits helps in reducing and preventing disease. According to reports, about 20-50% of respiratory and intestinal diseases can be avoided by washing hands at regular intervals.

Global Handwashing Day 2020 theme is: “Hand Hygiene for All”. This year’s theme follows the recent global initiative calling on all of society to scale up hand hygiene, especially through handwashing with soap.