Recently, there was a COVID-19 breakout in Vietnam. Hand sanitizer and face mask are completely sold-out, and are very difficult to buy. 2 middle school students in Vietnam, Tram and Truc, quickly realized that they were in a position to help the community in a meaningful way by producing hand sanitizer. Their first bottling was hand-made based on a recipe that they found on the internet. It met the basic alcohol-by-volume required to kill bacteria and viruses. Tram and Truc then gave out these bottles of homemade hand sanitizer to the underserved community at their hometown in Di Linh, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. Through this project, they hope to make a small and humble contribution to the fight against COVID 19.
- Timeline: August 2020 – October 2020
- Key Members: Tram Nguyen, 9th grader at Nguyen Du Secondary School, and Truc Ta, 9th grader at Lien Dam Secondary School
- Goal: Spread awareness about COVID-19 at Di Linh, Lam Dong, and providing hand sanitizer to poor people so they can wash their hands frequently.
- How: Using the fund provided by AASuccess to buy the ingredients, Tram and Truc spent 2 days bottling hand sanitizer. They then met up to deliver the bottles together.
- Result-To-Date: 60 bottles were made and given out to the underserved community at Di Linh, Lam Dong. The two students also engaged and had a meaningful conversation with the people there. They had a meal with one family afterwards.
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