While QR 200 and the payment of salaries immediately is no doubt a good step forward, much more needs to be done by the expat community here to helps these people. The expat community should come forward and provide these fellow human beings with essential items for their needs, a list of which appeared yesterday at QL. The governments of each country whose workforce has been affected must also step in immediately to assist them. These workforce contribute millions of dollars to the foreign exchange of their countries through their remittances. This is the time for governments to stand by their side.