In Kachin State, youth volunteers are being mobilised to help in the fight against COVID-19. Their contributions include disinfecting vehicles that carry migrant workers returning from China, arranging for returnees to be transferred to their hometowns, volunteering at quarantine centres and conducting awareness campaigns at camps for internally displaced people.
Myitkyina News Journal talks to young people and organisers to find out more. Listen in Burmese.
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