Hygiene supply kits delivered to Seoul's low-income neighborhoods amind COVID-19 outbreak

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As fears linger over the coronavirus, especially in Seoul after a big cluster was confirmed at a call center in the city, the community is pulling together to help each other out.
Citizens have stepped up big time and made donations to those less fortunate as themselves.
This money is being directed to low-income neighborhoods to ensure residents there can get their hands on much-needed items like hand sanitizer and face masks.
Kim Bo-kyoung reports.
A distribution center in Paju city, Gyeonggi-do Province.
This is where workers and volunteers from Hope Bridge, Korea Disaster Relief Association are making supply kits.
“Around one-thousand hygiene supply kits are being made here. The kits contain masks, hand sanitizers, and other items to help prevent those from the city’s poorest neighborhoods from catching COVID-19.”
Around 180-million items,... making up around 840-thousand kits, have already been given out to those in need thanks to citizens' support.
"As of Tuesday afternoon,... around 140-thousand people and organizations donated money, bringing the total to around 65-million U.S. dollars. If the amount in donations that other associations collected is added,... this would be more than 84-million U.S. dollars."
It took more than three hours to put all the items in separate kits.
After that,... several people joined forces to load them onto the truck.
The kits that were made in the morning were delivered to around one-thousand people in poor neighborhoods in Seoul and Incheon.
As people in these area cannot shower regularly, or afford to buy personal hygiene items,... they say these kinds of supply kits are very important to them.
But, these people are especially thankful for the masks.
These days masks are hard to buy, and for people like me, we can't even understand what a 5-day rotation mask distribution system is, so there were times when we couldn't even buy masks after waiting for several hours at drugstores. So we are very thankful."
Even if it seems like a small amount of money,... citizens' donations are making a big impact on those in need,... giving hope that, if joined together, South Korea can overcome the virus.
KIM Bo-kyoung, Arirang News.

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