Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Hand Sanitizer, where have you been all our lives?
Hand sanitizer costs about Rs. 80 a small bottle, and unlike soap, does not require water to wash off. Just imagine what that would mean in the IDP camps and in the sun scorched east interior villages, where drinking water needs to be rationed to a gulp a kid, every four hours or so! People in these villages and the camps aren’t going to be using the water they have to drink to wash their hands, so hand sanitizer maybe the answer. Can anyone take this idea and run with it?
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Water is used to wash things off. Hand Sanitzer can't replace that need right? :)
Say after lunch if you want to wash your hands? You'll need several bottles of Hand Sanitzer to do the job.
Rs. 80 will buy a heck of a lot of water, at least a gallon or so. If I were in an IDP camp I'd take a gallon of water over a 'small bottle' of hand sanitizer any day...
If you want to give people hand-san then do so by all means. Try to think of the garbage produced.
Rs. 80 is a lot, so water is probably more cost effective. 1.5 L of water costs Rs. 50 in Colombo and it's much cheaper in bulk or bowsered in.
They have a reasonable supply of washing water in the camps now. There seems to be a water tank every 10 or 20 meters along the 'main' roads inside. I don't think anyone is rationing it by gulp, certainly not in the east.
the point is guys, that there is no water to buy. You can visit the eastern villages with all the money you want there isn't a well with a bucket of water in it, much less a shop where you can buy a water bottle from.
I haven't seen too many bowsers floating around there either.
Bailaman, great point. but atleast you're using water only once when you eat (after it) instead of before it as well, saving 50% of water.
lankanyyz the point is they wont wash hands if it requires them to finish the water in the process.
it might not be practical to provide enough water bottles to make them wash hands without worrying about what they will drink.
Money agian is not the option here, though the hand sanitizer requires only a few drops per meal so should last a person around 4 days.
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