Lautoka market master Charlie Saukuru said he had been assisting 11 people from Yasawa who had been stuck in the Sugar City for the past three weeks.
He said the men were staying at a relative’s place in Kashmir.
Mr Saukuru said the reason he stepped in to assist was that the relative who was housing them was not working.
“I came to know about their situation after I met one of them in town in the early days of the Lautoka lockdown and I decided to do whatever I could to help them,” he said.
Mr Saukuru said he was housing two individuals at his Buabua home.
He said they included a fisherman and a man who was brought in from Yasawa for emergency medical treatment.
“At the moment, these two are at my home, however, I am providing groceries to the other nine living in Kashmir at their relative’s place as well.”
