Overview of papers

More than 1.5 million children under age 5 die each year from diarrheal diseases – and many more suffer from malnutrition as a result of it.
A clean water supply and proper sanitation and hygiene practices are well documented as means of preventing diarrhea.

The comfort and hygiene of washing hands can be brought into every home, school. clinic and working space at short notice and at little cost. The Hy2U-device for washing hands should be introduced as a educational program that can be adopted by small and large organizations, working in the field of health and development.

If you use a container of water with a self-closing valve at the bottom, you can wash your hands using very little water. From that point, the Design process began.

At the World Water Week Conference, all ministers, Worldbank officials, water consultants and other conference players had to get down with our innovative beautiful handwashing device. “Yes, sir, you can actually use it and play around with it!”. And they loved it.

Bram de Vries, Demotech's coworker did a survey in the main recent policy papers in regard of washing hands. He found little releveant action or development of ideas on the side of the large institues involved in development. See below the few findings.

Info search done by Bram de Vries

WASH (WAter, Sanitation, Hygiene) programme UNDP

UNDP Humand Development Report 2006

There is much to learn from one another, including by listening to – and heeding – the voices
of the poor themselves.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has introduced two relevant concepts: human development defined as a process that enlarges people’s choices including freedom, dignity, self-respect and social status. The second is human poverty meaning deprivation of essential capabilities such as a long and healthy life, knowledge, economic resources and community participation.

Short quotes from papers regarding washing hands

We will need the potential power of Drupal. The total of the Hy2U-websiie is going to be very complex.
The Hy2U-website has to facilitate the interplay among two groups, called "Messengers" and "Users". In this paper a possible approach is described.

Long list of unsorted or partly sorted research finding related to washing hands

Here you find a summary of the ideas behind the Hy2U-for washing hands itself: the type of technology used in its design.

The Why and How of the Hy2U has to be clearly described, making also a clear difference between the 'Why' of the Hy2U and the 'How'. In this paper the 'Why is explored.

Studies revealed that as much as 45 percent of what we do every day is habitual - that is, performed almost without thinking in the same location or at the same time each day, usually because of subtle cues....
....However, the studies also revealed an interesting paradox: Ghanaians used soap when they felt that their hands were dirty - after cooking with grease, for example, or after traveling into the city.

Why is domestic hygiene so important?
Each day more than 27,000 children under the age of 5 die, mainly from preventable infections and almost all in countries with limited resources. Keywords are:'Preventable' and "limited recources". Reason to consider the Hy2U.

Clean hands are the first necessary step to a clean home, a clean family, and a clean life. Our hands are the most intimate contact our bodies have with the world around us.