Oekusipost.com Ambeno - Nadia Oabung Heywood has distributed 80 watermelons to people who are in compliance with quarantine for 14 days in several shelters in Oe-Kusi Ambeno.
Around there are 4 shelters in the enclave and Nadia had divided the watermelon in two places, at the Lifau Hotel and the Five Star Hotel in Oel-Upun. Hotel-Lifau gets 24, and Five-Star Hotels get 56. Nadia shares the watermelon for free, because the garden is so full of watermelons in Mahata.
"Now the government does not have money, people only eat plain rice and vegetables, lack nutrition. The government does not provide good nutrition, so I told my father to give watermelon fruit donations to them to eat, "Nadia explained via cell phone to Oe-Kusi Post, Thursday 9 April 2020.
Nadia who lives in Mahata, Oe-Kusi Ambeno added, will continue to assist the RAEOA Authority to provide watermelons to those who undergo a 14-day quarantine period at the shelter center.
"Will continue to provide watermelons, because our garden is full of watermelons," she said.
Currently there are 115 people in the shelter center in Oe-Kusi Ambeno and 50 others have returned to their homes after 14 days undergoing quarantine.
Until now the authority of Oe-Kusi Ambeno used cash to buy food to people in quarantine. Authorities have not signed an agreement with certain local companies to supply food.
The latest data from the Ministry of Health and WHO on Thursday 9 April 2020 recorded around 950 people in quarantine. Of this number, there are 34 that do auto-quarantine, 896 people are free from quarantine. And there are still around 50 suspect, one positive, one maybe and there are 48 negative.
