Haitian Boy and Girl Scouts speak during an awareness campaign to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 15, 2020. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - In impoverished Haiti, where access to clean water is tricky and education is lacking, Boy and Girl Scouts are taking to the streets with portable sinks to allow passersby to wash their hands and teach them the importance of doing so to ward off the novel coronavirus.
Haitians are anxious their densely populated nation could be especially hard hit in the pandemic given the lack of sanitation infrastructure and already overwhelmed healthcare services.
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