Education about the importance of hand washing is still crucial as most communities do not take into consideration that as important. This was seen through consultation with different people from different communities in the district who had indicated that they only wash their hands when they wake up only.

This happens even in communities that do not have proper sanitation and are still practicing open defecation in their villages. They claim that they are very busy and they even forget to wash their hands while some stated that they save water as they fetch it from far.  The sad part is that there is dog stool everywhere in some places like Ha Semphi, Liqonong, and at Ha Matsumunyane, the spring is downstream and the defecation happens upstream.

Speaking with one of the villagers from Mashai Taung, a 64 aged woman named * Mrs.‘Mathabiso Mothibe said after the announcement that everything can return to normality she took the tippy tap off as there was no need to wash her hands anymore. She stated that she only washes her hand in the morning after waking up and thereafter it is business as usual.  Asked whether she is not afraid of catching diseases, she said she has been living like that even before COVID-19 and has never been sick from not washing her hands.

For families which still have the tippy taps, they are also not functioning as they do not have water anymore, and have become white elephants, and they claim they do not have soap to fill in those tippy taps.

The practice is not only done at home and has spread through to the herders living in the cattle posts, as they claim they use hot pap to bathe their hands as they do not have time to wash their hands. They state that because they use it while hot, it serves as hot water. 

Reports indicate that research shows that washing hands with soap and water could reduce deaths from the diarrheal disease by up to 50 percent, and continued to state that Researchers estimate that if everyone routinely washed their hands, 1 million deaths a year could be prevented.