Sri Lankan cricketers spread awareness about handwashing

Members of Sri Lanka cricket team, who are here for World T20 tournament matches, interacted with a group of adolescents to spread awareness about handwashing and using toilets to fight diseases like diarrhoea.
At the Team Swachh WASH clinic held at Jadavpur University's Salt Lake campus, 14 children from different schools of South 24-Parganas district demonstrated the five steps of handwashing.
The cricketers also gave batting and bowling tips to the children and pledged with them to support 'Team Swachh' campaign which advocates for toilet use in India.
The group gave emphasis on making India open defecation free, UNICEF officials said.

ICC and UNICEF had launched a five-year global partnership to empower children and adolescents.
With more than 564 million people still defecating in the open - the largest number of any single country in the world and half the global total - India's children suffer the effects of poor toilet use.