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The refugee soap maker who is fighting coronavirus © UNHCR Innocent Havyarimana lowered the prices of his products when the pandemic struck When Innocent Havyarimana started his soap-making business in Kenya s Kakuma refugee camp in early 2015, he was trying to move on from the traumatic events that had made him flee his native Burundi a year earlier. Little did he know that his cottage enterprise would become a major weapon in the fight against coronavirus in one of the world s biggest settlements of its kind - Kakuma is home to almost 200,000 people. As soon as the former chemistry student realised the importance of hand-washing in tackling the spread of Covid-19, he lowered prices and started to offer his products in smaller quantities and sizes, to make them more affordable.

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