 My name is Sebastian Ehrpoint and I'm a 50th year PhD student at OIST in the Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit. Right now with COVID-19, one of the main things that people need is an insinitizer. Usually I'm working on catalysts but now we're working here to make gels. My name is Sandrine. I'm also a PhD student here at OIST in the Cell Signal Unit. Normally I work on lung cancer but I am helping Sebastian with this project making alcohol-based gel for the local community. The recipe we've been using was published by the World Health Organization but it can be made easily using just very simple ingredients. We first sent an email to all the students and we got quite a few answers and then we decided to want more people so we sent an email to all the researchers at OIST and we got about 20-25 people within a few days so it was very easy. A lot of people want to help a lot. Right now we have the reagents and the equipment and everything that we need to make 400 litres of gel and we're ready to make more if there is a need for it. We're trying to give this to the most at-risk people on our village so that people from pension homes, kids and nurseries and in ONA clinic and other clinics around ONA. These places where the most people will need it. We at OIST were part of the local community and we're part of Okinawa and we wanted to find a way to give back to this community. First of all, it's done everybody! It's a small thing for us but it can really make a difference for the local people.