Students in Indonesia give free hand sanitizeres, soaps, and food to unskilled workers due to coronavirus lockdown.

Coronavirus outbreak is consuming the entire world and we are all fighting in this battle with each other. University students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Island of Java have started helping informal workers. The students put out a message in social media saying, We need money to help these people whose work is seldom appreciated. With-in a week, the donations started coming.

Organizer Ari Wijayanto, said, they fanned out to distribute 400 bottles of hand sanitizers and 30 bottles of hand soaps to pedicab drivers. Construction workers. Food sellers. Motorcycle taxi drivers. Traders in the city's wet market, where stalls offer perishable goods like live meat, fish and produce.

Subsequently, with the rising demand for sanitizers, the price of sanitizers and soups rose. So, students are now making it themselves.

"They are the most vulnerable people here. Some of them do not have social insurance. So we want to support them," Wijayanto said to Associate Press.

COVID-19 is also going to impact income in every sector.

In Indonesia,more than 893 cases have been confirmed, with 16 in Yogyakarta.

This growing threat has meant a decline in visitors to Kota Gede, one of Yogyakarta's most popular tourism areas.

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"Today I saw almost no tourist came here," said Yeni Pratiwi, a fried snacks seller there.

According to Pratiwi, since the COVID-19 outbreak, she has lost 40% of her daily income.

"I cannot just stay at home. Staying at home means my family will have nothing to eat," Pratiwi said.

She has been working in a market for eight hours and 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.

"They are really helpful. My children usually provided anti-bacterial hand soap to me. But it is difficult to find now," Pratiwi said, and very expensive.

Due to the delay in the very of soaps and sanitizers, students were forced to obtain their own masks and other equipment for protection. When they did, they also handed out fliers on hygiene.

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After distributing sanitizers, students are planning to distribute foods in unskilled workers at three different places in Yogyakarta.

They are still collecting money for other needs, such as medical supplies and masks.

The need is great, said one student, Raihan Ibrahim Anas: "Some of the pedicab drivers we met today said they cannot get any customers."

And until the government steps up, he said, the students will step in.

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