Global Handwashing Day marked in DPRK

An event was held in Myonggan County, North Hamgyong Province, the DPRK, on Wednesday to mark the 2019 Global Handwashing Day.

Present there were officials of the Ministry of Urban Management, the Grand People's Study House and Myonggan County, working people and schoolchildren of the county, the chief and members of the mission of UNICEF here and foreign guests.

Speeches were made at the event on the theme of "Clean hands of all of us."

The attendants shared experience in handwashing and enjoyed an art performance given by schoolchildren.

Meanwhile, an inaugural ceremony of the gravity-fed water supply facility which was built in Myonggan County in cooperation with UNICEF was held on the same day.

KCNA