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No one else volunteered to move into their factory.
That wasn’t the only factory case. In Uganda, AFRIpads says 60 workers offered to live inside its factory during COVID-19 to keep production going.
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This sentence is too absolute. There is documented evidence of at least one other factory whose workers volunteered to live on-site during the pandemic.
A 2020 Devex report on AFRIpads, a Ugandan manufacturer of reusable menstrual products, says:
- "To keep AFRIpads open ... 60 workers offered to live inside the factory after the government decree."
- The same article also says workers lived on the premises for four months.
An additional Business Call to Action / 3BL Media article about AFRIpads reports that Uganda required essential factory workers to live on-site to continue work, and that AFRIpads responded by setting up temporary housing for factory workers so production could resume.
So the claim that "No one else volunteered to move into their factory" is contradicted by reporting on AFRIpads: another factory did exactly that, with dozens of workers offering to live inside the plant to keep it operating during COVID-19.
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- At a Ugandan factory, workers prove that 'periods don't pause for pandemics' | Devex
To follow government orders and keep sanitary pad business AFRIpads open during the pandemic, 60 workers lived on the premises for four months... To keep AFRIpads open... 60 workers offered to live inside the factory after the government decree.
- Business Continuity and Protecting the BoP during COVID-19 | 3BL Media
An overnight lockdown and the ruling that essential factory workers had to live on-site to continue work shut the AFRIpads factory down for two weeks... As a solution, the team was able to set up temporary housing for factory workers and after two weeks workers returned.