In the next videos we see the Red Cross' efforts in Haiti to promote handwashing through songs in Creole, Food for the Hungry in Mozambique shows us a handwashing station that uses a gallon plastic bottle as a water source and shares the song Mozi's Water, which lasts as long as handwashing should.

Many different organizations are promoting handwashing in different parts of the world.

The concerned ministers at national and state levels launched the campaign on 15 October by participating in the handwashing activities with children in rural schools.

In 2005, in a study conducted by TUV Produkt und Umwelt, different hand drying methods were evaluated.

And they came back to their American clinic and they said they had learned it was as important to wash your hands before doing surgery as it was to wash up afterwards.

There is also emerging evidence linking better hand washing practices with reduced incidence of acute respiratory infections.

This video from Mexico, bases itself on UNICEF's 2009 Japanese Handwashing Song and names the steps so they are easier to remember the mountain, the guitar, the motorcycle, the snake, the butterfly and kamehameha show that handwashing is certainly much more than just rubbing palms together!

The two hands, please. The two hands. Very well.

And they came back to their American clinic and they said they had learned it was as important to wash your hands before doing surgery as it was to wash up afterwards.

First removing rings, watches and bracelets, then regulating water flow, wetting hands and using enough soap, washing backs, fronts, sides and tips of fingers and then drying hands with paper towels which are used to close the faucet afterwards.

Arms straight.

Almost 1 million school teachers received training courses to execute the campaign and to reach out to about 100 million school children.

Programmes that combine improved sanitation and hand washing facilities in schools with hygiene education can improve the health of children for life.

The only way to sustainably reduce this massive burden of disease is through the use of safe drinking water, sanitation and improved hygiene practices, in particular hand washing with soap.

Health practitioners in Iligan City, Philippines also made their own choreographed handwashing video to the beat of Jai Ho, from the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.

So what happened was, the engineers showed up with nothing.

How could you come empty handed?

If I tied both hands?

Now don't go emptyhanded.

This group of young people in a rural community in Honduras also use Hip Hop to sing about the importance of handwashing in this video aired on local television.

The term was coined by Dr. William Alexander Hammond in 1879 when describing a case of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibited in repeatedly washing one's hands.

We are giving you the freedom of using all of both of your hands, so you can actually use both of your hands to zoom into or zoom out of a map just by pinching all present.

Logo for the Global Handwashing Day

His hands comfort and heal

Hand paddles, everything.

No hands at the wheel.

Beyonce's Single Ladies is used as the soundtrack to go through the 5 different steps of handwashing for health practitioners, as shown in this video and dance by Public Health students in Mexico.

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Layla has scars on her hands.

That's an inconvenience compared to having both of them gone.

You open it, these muscles contract.

ln the dark.

Danger from such lovely hands?

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and his teammates joined an estimated 100 million schoolchildren around the country in lathering up for better health and hygiene as part of the first Global Handwashing Day.

Foundations Surtigas and Promigas in Colombia have empowered children to express themselves through writing, painting, poetry and singing, with some of the children composing pieces on handwashing and singing in the traditional regional style of Vallenato.

Bronisław Geremek died with a clear conscience and clean hands.

It took two hands to do it, but it did turn.

This is it being held in the hand.

And then, Linda, you keep on dropping handfuls.

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I don't like leaving emptyhanded.

Write with these hands and a brain all out of focus?

I never go to a castle emptyhanded!

What can a man do with hands like that? Tell me, what?