The World Health Organization have been always emphasizing to people to observed good hygiene, including proper handwashing using soap and water to reduce the risk of contracting the COVID-19.
However, since the outbreak started some individuals don't have that opportunity to observe the proper hygiene - especially the homeless.
Atlanta based NGO for homeless, Terence Lester, co-founder of Love Beyond Walls has providing portable handwashing stations around the region to help the city's homeless people.
The idea came up when COVID-19 update were first released on how to mitigate the risk. He know that this is impossible for the people he is advocating since they have limited access to water and soap.
"As the world was talking about sanitizing and washing your hands, I knew there was an entire community of people experiencing homelessness who couldn’t do any of those things," Lester told "Good Morning America."
Sanitizing the handwashing stations this morning and refilling them with water. It’s amazing how much water was used in just one day.— Terence Lester (@imTerenceLester) March 20, 2020
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Grateful for my friend Taye that came to support and volunteer to drop these back off.
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With the help of volunteers from the organization, they set up dozens of portable handwashing stations over Atlanta.
For those who don't know Lester, he was doing this because he himself had experienced being homeless.
"When I was 16 years old, I stayed in parks and abandoned buildings off and on for over half a year," he told "GMA." "Doing a campaign like this helps to educate people about the invisibility of a community of people that's overlooked," he said.
Each handwashing station is filled with soap and water, which holds 5 to 10 gallons.
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