World’s Best Teacher Peter Tabichi has been appointed as the Dettol Superhero Brand ambassador for 2020.
The Dettol Soaperhero program is a student-led school hygiene program that was launched in August 2019 to help reduce sanitation-related ailments among school-going children across the country.
Tabichi, a Science and Mathematics teacher at Keriko Secondary School in Nakuru County, will champion the cause for over 9 million school-going children across the country.
“Dettol has over the years focused its interventions on school hygiene programs, targeting children in both urban and rural areas. Today, we are honoured to partner with ‘the world’s best teacher’ in the fight against hygiene-based diseases in our schools,” said Africa Expansion Director – Health , Dele Adeyole.
Tabichi won the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize in March this year for his continued efforts to empower students and the school’s surrounding community. He was awarded a Sh 100million prize.
He recently visited President Donald Trump alongside Varkey Foundation Chairman Vikas Pota and billionaire Founder of Varkey Foundation Sunny Varkey at the White House.