Since the global outbreak of the coronavirus, many countries have struggled to keep up with the renewed demand for hand sanitisers, as people are advised to keep their hands clean.
This burst in demand, combined with rampant panic buying, has lead to a global shortage in hand sanitisers from many shops and drugstores.
That was the problem five-year-old Uma sought to fix with her kindness.
Uma is from Argentina's Sierra de La Ventana and lives with her father, Gabriel Allende.
She wanted to make her own hand sanitiser using plants they have in abundance – aloe vera.
Gabriel and Uma used a homemade process to create aloe vera-based disinfectant gel.
They are giving away for free in an act of kindness to help combat the spread of coronavirus in their country.
Gabriel explained that they came to the idea of donating the gel, as well as masks they produced themselves, when Uma observed that an elderly couple could not get the gel because they did not have the money.
"Due to the high costs, the grandparents could not buy the alcohol gel, so I was together with my daughter before the prohibition to go out was declared, and there it occurred to us through her question.” Gabriel said of her daughter.
“She said, 'Why could they not buy the alcohol gel?' and I told her 'because the cost is very high’,” which prompted Uma's suggestion to give the gel away for free.
“I’m really more than proud of what she can generate from her smallness, globally, and she has a lot to teach us and we have a lot to learn from children," he added.
However, due to the shortages of alcohol in Sierra de La Ventana, Gabriel and Uma Allende rely on donations from the local police or people from outside their hometown in order to make more gel.
According to reports, Argentina has 128 confirmed coronavirus cases.
Globally there have been over 308,000 reported cases since the start of the outbreak, and over 13,000 deaths.
