As you know the three decade old Stop, Drop and Roll program taught to kindergarten students has resulted in more children saving the lives of parents than parents saving the lives of children in household fires. Moreover, after three decades, the children of yesterday are the parents and even grandparents of today, thus two and three generations have now learned the lessons of Stop, Drop and Roll.

Rinse, Lather, Repeat seeks to do the same for all hazards, not just fire. With Rinse, Lather, Repeat you can survive anything, anywhere, every time!

Rinse, Lather, and Repeat is a one-week educational curriculum for kindergarten-age students that focuses on five core activities:

1. Preparation and maintenance of a three-day travel pack
2. Knowledge of where to obtain reliable news and evacuation instructions
3. The memorization of local and out-of-state phone numbers for friends, relatives, or family
4. The location of local shelters and local evacuation routes
5. The appropriate hygiene techniques for home in a household shower or at a hospital or other community facility including hand washing to decrease spread of disease.

Finally, children will learn the crux of the Rinse, Lather, and Repeat program, which is how to decontaminate themselves. Contamination can occur for a number of reasons, including raw sewerage if the levee breaks flooding their town, household chemicals like bleach or cleaning products may be splashed on them at home, there may be an industrial accident in their community, or even a biological or chemical weapon scare.

Unfortunately, health care workers still struggle with how to decontaminate a child. After all, we teach children never to get naked in public, so you can’t expect them to disrobe in front of people in bio-suits and walk naked through a decontamination unit. However, every child can be taught how to take a simple shower, which is really all decontamination is. They just have to learn to Rinse well, to Lather well (not just wander around in the bathtub as so many kids do), and then to Repeat the process one time.

Several articles have been released on the internet and recently published in several newsstand magazines concerning the program. A national independent television network filmed a 30 minute program about Rinse, Lather, Repeat 8 weeks ago. The next step is to garner DHS, HHS and DOE support for the program and release it on the internet for download by any school or home school parent who chooses to implement the program. One Washington insider has introduced the program as part of a larger package. Ten weeks ago, another such person introduced Rinse, Lather, Repeat to the Vice-President of the second largest kindergarten curriculum publisher in the country. All who have reviewed the program have recommended Rinse, Lather, Repeat garner financial support from government as well as private sources such as Disney, Universal, Microsoft and others.

Rinse, Lather, Repeat will not benefit the general populous, but by enhancing awareness and the overall Culture of Preparedness, Rinse, Lather, Repeat will create greater expectation and demand for preparedness in all aspects of society, life and business in the same way that Stop, Drop and Roll has created such expectation and demand for fire safety.

No one knows better than you who or what within your sphere of influence may be of assistance to Rinse, Lather, Repeat. My goal is to make Rinse, Lather, Repeat as common as Stop, Drop and Roll. This will require a curriculum development partner, an internet distribution partner, large scale television news coverage and political support.

Please drop me an email and let me know your thoughts on Rinse, Lather, Repeat and how best to advance the program renaissancedoc@mauricearamirez.com.

Been a while since we connected. Would love to be in your circle of creation.

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With fond regards,

Maggie