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Colouring your hands clean: meet the women transforming hand hygiene education
We caught up Shubham and Amanat, inventors of SoaPen.
“Wow, so 2020 happened and hand washing has never been more important!”
Hand hygiene has been a hot topic of conversation the world over, since the Covid-19 pandemic began. And for the entrepreneurs and 2016 US James Dyson Award runners-up, Shubham Issar and Amanat Anand, the past five years have focused on ensuring the youngest in society know the importance of hand hygiene too.
Meet SoaPen. A colourful pen made from soap encouraging hand hygiene practice for young children.
“We wanted to come at the problem from a fun perspective, from the perspective of making handwashing, just the act of it, fun. That’s how we came up with the idea of SoaPen; a soap kids can draw with on their hands.”