BEIJING: In an unprecedented move, Pakistani students in China putthemselves in danger for sake of other students in fight againstCoronavirus.
Four Pakistani students studying at China University of Geosciences, Wuhanput themselves in danger for sake of other students and volunteered duringthe fight against novel coronavirus outbreak.
These Pakistani students along with other international students fromdifferent countries, including Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Tanzania,Madagascar, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Tajikistan, Jordan and Yemen carriedout food delivery works for the international students staying in Wuhan,according to a report published by China Economic Net.
Besides taking orders, placing orders, receiving goods and deliveringgoods, sometimes volunteers have to sort and sub-package vegetables andeven weight wheat flour.
The `Iron Men’ volunteer team was divided into several groups to offerbetter services for students, like food ordering group, daily necessariespurchasing group, supplies distributing group and girls’ group.
There are two students of the food ordering group in charge of orderingNon-Muslim food and Muslim food from CUG(Wuhan)’s canteens.
“I am responsible for ordering Muslim food,” said Ismail Shah, a Pakistanivolunteer.
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To facilitate food ordering, Shah created a group on WeChat, China’s mostpopular social media platform. Every night, students put their food ordersfor the next day in that group.
They pay for their orders by WeChat Pay or Alipay, China’s top two digitalpayments.
After that, Shah has to make a list of all the orders and send it to histeacher Luo Jingang. Mr Luo takes the charge of forward the list to thelogistics department of CUG (Wuhan).
The department takes the order to canteens.
