Harpic celebrates World Toilet Day with continuous efforts to develop public sanitation facilities

Chanuka Perera - Brand manager – Harpic, Reckitt Sri Lanka handing-over a consignment of Harpic to the Regional Director Health Services- Gampaha

Harpic disinfectant toilet cleaner, a brand of globally renowned consumer goods conglomerate Reckitt, recently marked the World Toilet Day by renovating and upgrading the sanitation infrastructure of Meerigama Base Hospital. 

As a Base Hospital this serves a large catchment area of the public that sees 750 to 1000 people a day. The official handing over of the renovated facilities coincided with the world toilet day 2021 which fell on November 19 under the theme ‘Harpic: Mission Wellbeing’. 

Reckitt Sri Lanka, the distributor for Harpic locally, has partnered with local health authorities throughout the years to deliver similar support to empower the local healthcare sector. Since 2017 they have worked to refurbish toilets in peoples’ homes, helping about 150 families per annum and a total of 600 plus families over the last 4 years.

They also started a mobile bathroom initiative in 2015, which affects approximately 800,000 people a year.  
Their commitment towards public sanitary facilities does not end there. For the last 3 years they have conducted a sanitation program for the public bathrooms at Sri Pada which has provided facilities for 600,000 pilgrims. 

Commenting on this initiative, Head of Marketing at Reckitt Sri Lanka Shaminda Perera noted, “As a brand in the hygiene space, we’re committed to ensuring health and wellbeing of all citizens; as such, aligning with this year’s theme & our organizational ethos, we are glad to have been part of this renovation project. 

We look forward to partaking in similar initiatives in the future collaborating with the Ministry of Healthcare and Indigenous Medical Services.”