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What washing your hands can teach you about global change

Schoolchildren wash their hands during an activity for the upcoming Global Handwashing Day October 12, 2009. October 15 has been appointed Global Handwashing Day in accordance with the year 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation by the UN.  REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E5AD0BNY01

Schoolchildren in Peru wash their hands to celebrate Global Handwashing Day. Image: REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

Paul Polman
Co-Founder and Co-Chair, IMAGINE
Myriam Sidibe
Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Val Curtis
Director of the Environmental Health Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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