0.3m students gear up for World Record Tooth brushing Challenge

World Record Tooth brushing Challenge

In readiness for the upcoming Lagos World Record Tooth brushing Challenge, 300 secondary school teachers have undergone a special Teacher’s Alignment Training Session  so as to  host the event, slated for July 4, 2013, even as 300,000 students are set to participate in the event.

The training was facilitated by HEIT Solutions, project team for the Challenge, at  Immaculate Heart Comprehensive Senior High School, Maryland Lagos State.

Project Head, HEIT Solutions,  Dr. Lawal Bakare, a dentist and design specialist, took the teachers through the critical elements of the World Record attempt in which over 300,000 secondary school students willo gather in multiple locations across Lagos to brush their teeth simultaneously.

The teachers  were informed of the Guinness World Record standards for counting the number of students brushing in each school, the designed model for the tooth brushing as well as the waste recycling element to the attempt.

The current World Record for  people brushing their teeth simultaneously in multiple locations is 177,003 achieved in India. Nigeria hopes to smash the six-year-old record.

Mr. Rasheed Banire of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, spoke to them on proper waste disposal and recycling culture.

Commenting on the essence of the activity, Mr Dexter Adeola a representative of  Unilever, makers of the Close-up  toothpaste and official partners of the Tooth brushing Challenge, observed  that many families across Nigeria do not have access to proper dental health care due to non-proximity to dental clinics and high cost of the services.

The Lagos World Record Tooth brushing Challenge is a School Oral Health Promotions project implemented by HEIT Solutions in partnership with the Lagos State Ministry of Health (Office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health), the Nigerian Dental Association and CloseUp Toothpaste.

The project is also supported by Core Media, Vas2Nets Technologies, LASAA and LAWMA. It is enabled by Volunteer Corps, Volunteer in Nigeria and Wecyclers, a social enterprise working to solve the urban waste management problem in Lagos is also partnering with the organisers.