School Hand sanitizer

[Arina Vakurina]

Hello! 

The issue about students having dry hands with bloody sores after school hand sanitizer was already raised before the winter break of Facebook page. But it seems the School Management didn't address this problem and is still applying the same hand sanitizer. Attached you will find a picture of my daughter's hands after just a couple of days at school (before the winter break it was much much worse with bloody cracks and sores). I raised this issue in the ICS parents WhatsApp group yesterday and I've got a lot of feedbacks with the same problem. Therefore, I (also on behalf of some other parents from the ICS parents WhatsApp group) would like to ask the School Management & Administration  to change the sanitizer with another one suitable for child skin.

Hope for immediate action!

Best regards,

Arina

[ICS Comms]

Thanks Arina for your post.

We can see that you are frustrated.  We are so sorry your daughter is experiencing such a difficult time with her hands.  We encourage you to reach out to our Health Office and they can provide some more tips on additional things to help with dry chapped skin.   (health...@icsaddis.org)

As a school, we take all parent concerns seriously and try our best to address the concerns.  Over the break we did take action.  

For our younger learners we do focus more on hand washing over hand sanitizing. Over the break we were able to source overseas and obtain a more gentle and better ph-balanced hand soap for the EY and ES buildings.  Additionally we were able to source from overseas and obtain aloe gel to put into our hand sanitizer bottles, used at the gates and in the EY and ES classrooms, which makes the hand sanitizing spray less harsh and drying.

While we cannot eliminate frequent hand-washing and hand sanitizing, we hope the gentle soap and aloe will help make a difference.

Thanks for bringing up the topic, we will put this information in the ICS Weekly to share with all parents.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Best,

[Arina Vakurina]

Thank you for your prompt feedback! I believe there are many options of quality products for hand-washing and sanitizing. It's really frustrated to see our kids suffering with their red bloody hands. I'm glad to hear, that you already took actions to solve this issue and I hope we will not have such problems soon. 

Best regards,

Arina

четверг, 28 января 2021 г. в 09:12:53 UTC+3, ICS Comms: