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Published on: Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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Sharifah holds her youngest daughter Nur Qairah while the other children do their school work on a big rock as a desk on the hill where the Internet connection is the strongest in Kampung Panikuan, Kudat.
Kota Kinabalu: Oil palm leaves to give shade from the sun shelters. A big rock as a desk. And surroundings of overgrown grass as walls. For a year, that has been a classroom to three young children of a far-flung village in Sabah’s northernmost Kudat district.
Rain or shine, Sharifah Sharizah has, without fail, taken the children on a hike up to a hilltop about 5km from their home, so that the children can attend online classes.