Hand washing with soap after defecation was practiced more commonly by the under-15 age group due to education at local schools on good hygienic practices. With strong evidence on the efficacy of hand washing (Curtis and Cairncross, 2003), a greater emphasis on this practice including repeated messages in primary schools could be a part of an intervention package for long term behavioural change (Zwane and Kremer, 2007) and prevention of diarrhoea.