Rentokil Initial launches Adopt-A-School hygiene program

In support of the global celebration of World Toilet Day, Rentokil Initial, the leading global provider of hygiene solutions, recently launched its “Adopt-a-School” hygiene program that aims to spread the awareness of proper toilet and handwashing habits and raise the hygiene standards of the Filipino youth.

The activity aims to teach the young the basics of proper toilet habits, starting off with the students of the Makati Gospel Church New Life Christian Academy, Rentokil Initial’s adopted school (in photo).

“We know that the pivot in the mindset toward proper sanitation starts with the young. As such, the event program will particularly focus on helping students learn and develop proper toilet and handwashing habits,” Rentokil Initial managing director Ederine Gee Geneblazo said.

One of the key messages of the activity is “When you flush, cover and wash,” which emphasizes the importance of covering the toilet bowl whenever they flush to avoid contaminating the air and of washing their hands afterwards.

World Toilet Day is an initiative of the United Nations General Assembly and is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals launched in 2015 which include a target to ensure everyone has access to a safely managed household toilet by 2030.

“Our advocacy complements the World Toilet Day’s aim of addressing the global need for more toilets, because aside from the dire lack of clean toilets in many communities, studies show that contributory to the spread of diseases is improper sanitation and bad toilet habits,” Geneblazo added.

As Rentokil Initial’s adopted school, the Makati Gospel Church New Life Christian Academy was provided with toilet hygiene products for the use of its students and teachers in the school’s comfort rooms as well as literature for the products’ proper use.

“The main reason why we chose the Makati Gospel Church New Life Christian Academy as our first adopted school for this advocacy is because their objectives in toilet hygiene are aligned with our own program objectives. “So, it’s a perfect fit,” she said.

Rentokil Initial is a company that combines the expertise of Initial, the world’s leading commercial hygiene services company.