Sharjah school makes hand washing fun amid COVID-19

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00:00The outbreak of COVID-19 forced many schools around the world to search for a new way of

00:09precautionary measures to curb the virus. As we all know that hand washing is the most

00:15effective way to prevent the spread of infections, we are at Victoria English School in Sharjah

00:21to see their new innovative way of encouraging students to wash their hands.

00:27One of the things we're trying to do is we're trying to get students to not just associate

00:33hand washing with going to the bathroom, but hand washing is just part of good hygiene

00:37and good COVID-19 preparedness. So we've taken some barrels which we have made into portable

00:45sink units and many of them are inside at the moment, but what we're hoping to do is

00:50we're going to have ten of these made around the school and in time we'll take them outside

00:54so that students will be able to go outside and take a break and hand wash on the yard

01:00and then as a result throughout the day we'll be making sure all the students get the opportunity

01:05to regularly wash their hands and not just the regular sanitisation that's going on.

01:10So the sinks are made here with a feed and with a water tank and they looked a little

01:15bit bland, we're trying to obviously make school as welcoming as possible for the students

01:20and not make it feel like it's an over-sanitised environment, so Miss Yoshida who's our artist

01:25in residence has been decorating the barrels with these beautiful paintings and colours

01:30to make them as attractive as possible and to hope the students enjoy using them.

01:38We painted ten barrels with the theme of Dubai, Egypt and other countries, England, because

01:45we have all of the students here studying, so for them to see and feel happy.

01:51With the colours they are very happy actually to wash and they sometimes look around how

01:56I painted, so it's really a pleasure you know, they don't feel that they have to wash every

02:0220 minutes, so it's really nice.

02:05I think they were saying to us, we are happy Miss, to see these barrels with colourful

02:11paintings, so I think we have successfully done it.

02:14Prevent crowds of students around the sinks, will surely send a clear message to our parents

02:21that their children are in safe hands.

02:24I'm Ali Shook from Gulf News, take care everyone.