Tag «hygiene»

2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation

12 July 2017 | GENEVA | NEW YORK – Some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF. The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report, Progress on drinking water, …

Nestlé India, Government of Rajasthan and NASVI join hands to raise awareness on Food Safety Practices and Hygiene among Street Food Vendors in Jaipur

Nestlé India, Government of Rajasthan and National Association of Street Food Vendors of India (NASVI) have joined hands to train street vendors in Jaipur. The training of street vendors will be conducted by NASVI and will comprise subjects such as health, hygiene, safe food handling, waste disposal and entrepreneurship. The participants will also be provided …

UNILEVER CALLS on UNITED NATIONS to MEASURE HYGIENE AS PART OF the SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

New York, 28 September 2015 – On behalf of Unilever’s health soap Lifebuoy, CEO Paul Polman today called for a hygiene indicator to be included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the global goals that will set the development agenda until 2030. Polman was speaking at a panel discussion, which coincides with the launch …

Handwashing and Help a Child Reach 5 ambassador Kajol appeals for the cause of hygiene during the United Nations General Assembly week

India, September 23, 2015:Kajol Devgn, actor and Lifebuoy’s ‘Help a Child Reach 5’ ambassador will highlight the importance of handwashing with soap in reducing child and new-born mortality at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). She will appeal to policymakers for a hygiene indicator to be included in the UN’s Sustainable …