They toil on the fringes, without any job security or set hours or decent wages. Then, said organizer Ari Wijayanto, they fanned out to distribute 400 bottles of hand sanitizers and 30 bottles of hand soaps to pedicab drivers. As of Thursday, the government said there were 893 confirmed cases in Indonesia
1 / 4Virus Outbreak One Good Thing IndonesiaIn this Thursday, March 26, 2020, photo, an activist distribute hand sanitizers and soaps to a street food vendor in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A group of students from several universities in the central Java city has distributed soaps and hand sanitizers to informal daily workers whose incomes are affected by the coronavirus outbreak. JAKARTA, Indonesia — They toil on the fringes, without any job security or set hours or decent wages.
And as demand for sanitizers increased and price rose, the students made plans to make it themselves. The two bottles of soap and a bottle of hand sanitizer she got from the students will enable her to maintain hygiene while working at the market for eight hours every day.
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