{"id":2882,"date":"2022-07-13T13:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:55:16","slug":"thies-in-the-time-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/2022\/07\/13\/thies-in-the-time-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Thi\u00e8s in the Time of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Face-masks: a new business opportunity<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Jean Paul used to work as a supervisor for L-IFT in Senegal and now again works part-time for L-IFT coordinating The Corner Shop project in Senegal. He informed us that in Thi\u00e8s, 70 km east of Dakar, people had started to make and\/or sell face-masks in addition to their usual trade. For instance, he recently bought a mask that his cobbler had made. It is interesting to see how fast small businesses adjust to the changing demands.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Like most countries, Senegal imposed safety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 people are asked to stay at home as much as possible;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 schools, mosques, and churches have been closed for about a month;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 the number of passengers in public transport is limited and motorbike taxis are no longer allowed;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 people cannot move from one city to another;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 an 8 pm to 6 am curfew has been imposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, markets remain open, and street vendors and door-to-door salesmen are still allowed to move around.<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to Jean Paul, so far prices haven\u2019t gone up and there hasn\u2019t been any kind of shortage (except for hand sanitizer).<\/p>\n\n\n

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A limited number of customers are allowed at the same time inside supermarkets, so it\u2019s become common to see people wait in line to get in.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

People are encouraged to use mobile money and some mobile money providers have eliminated commission fees on certain transactions to do so. However, many transactions in markets or on the street cannot go through that kind of payment method. Therefore, many people are still using cash.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Using cash to pay on the streets<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In order to help the population, the government is guaranteeing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 food assistance to the most vulnerable citizens;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 free medical care for COVID19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial institutions were also asked to grant payment deferrals to their customers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean Paul used to work as a supervisor for L-IFT in Senegal and now again works part-time for L-IFT coordinating The Corner Shop project in Senegal. He informed us that in Thi\u00e8s, 70 km east of Dakar, people had started to make and\/or sell face-masks in addition to their usual trade. For instance, he recently […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finbit.co\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}