World Hand Washing Day is celebrated on October 15 to encourage millions of people around the world to eat their hands with soap. has been taken. The main objective of this day is to make people aware about the prevention of diseases. World Handwashing Day was celebrated for the first time on October 15, 2008. It may be recalled that the United Nations General Assembly declared the year 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation and adopted a resolution to celebrate World Handwashing Day in line with the programme. The scheme has been taken mainly to include school children in the programme on this day. Because the awareness created among them can play an important role in preventing the disease.