P&G Philippines celebrating its 80th year for a good cause

Procter & Gamble (P&G) Philippines recently launched its ‘P&G Linis, Lusog’ program on its 80^th year celebration. President and general manager for P&G, Shankar Viswanathan emphasized the importance of having a proper hygiene to prevent diseases from spreading and affecting the health of students.

P&G Philippines will distribute 80 permanent hand washing facilities and a year supply of P&G soap products on different barangays within the metro. They first started on West Rembo Elementary School and South Cembo Elementary School.

President and general manager for P&G, Shankar Viswanathan (left) presenting their gifts to the South Cembo Elementary School, with its Principal Ms. Irene Aquino (far right)

“We want to contribute to the society. We want the P&G kids to learn the basic concepts of health and hygiene, especially hand washing which is the most important thing to save yourselves from various diseases,” said Shankar Viswanathan.

According to the South Cembo Elementary School principal, Ms. Irene Aquino, even before the P&G Philippines’ ‘P&G Linis, Lusog’ program, they have followed the Global Hand Washing Day which is held every October 15 that started last 2013 and taught their students the importance and steps of proper hand washing. Since starting the program, they have noticed that there are less reports of diseases from their students and the health of their community has improved.

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Unpublished report: June 30, 2015