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, that 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

00:50put about ten of these made around the school and in time we'll take them outside so that

00:55students will be able to go outside, take a break and hand wash on the yard and then

01:01as 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 Yashita 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. With the

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

01:56so it's really a pleasure, you know, they don't feel that they have to wash every 20

02:02minutes so it's really nice. I think they were saying to us we are happy to see these

02:09barrels, you know, with colourful paintings 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. I'm Ali Shouk from Gulf News, take care everyone.

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