In an air-conditioned room on the third floor of the Pekanbaru mayor's office, 35-year-old Apriyani watches over her sleeping four-month-old baby Gibran.
She is one of four mothers who have moved into this emergency nursery set up by the local government this week. Offered to all needy mothers in town, it is an attempt to protect babies from the toxic haze caused by forest fires that has covered the city for months.
"My baby is free from the haze here. It's not like at home," said Apriyani, who like many Indonesians goes by only her first name.
"At home my baby just coughs and coughs. Here the room is sealed and there is an air purifier - at home we don't have anything like that." Full story...
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She is one of four mothers who have moved into this emergency nursery set up by the local government this week. Offered to all needy mothers in town, it is an attempt to protect babies from the toxic haze caused by forest fires that has covered the city for months.
"My baby is free from the haze here. It's not like at home," said Apriyani, who like many Indonesians goes by only her first name.
"At home my baby just coughs and coughs. Here the room is sealed and there is an air purifier - at home we don't have anything like that." Full story...
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