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Sarawak volunteers sew thousands of PPEs for Sabah frontliners - superadmin - 10-25-2020
KUCHING: A group of Sarawakian volunteers, most of them housewives, have joined the fight against Covid-19 by making personal protective equipment (PPE) sets for frontliners in Sabah.
The initiative is driven by Tanoti, a social enterprise which trains and employs rural women to weave songkets. This helps them to earn income and have a platform to sell the traditional handicrafts.
Over the weekend, Tanoti gathered 24 volunteers to sew 1,000 PPEs for frontliners in neighbouring Sabah, which is the worst-hit state with close to 10,000 Covid-19 cases recorded to date.
Jacqueline Fong, who co-founded the company, said each PPE set includes an isolation gown, hood cover and a pair of shoe covers.
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