Ecuador: community education during the Covid pandemic Johis Alarcón. Written by Dan Collyns
As Covid-19 ravaged Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, in the first months of the pandemic and spread through the rest of the country, smaller and more isolated communities were often the safest but forced to look to themselves to educate their children.
As the photographer Johis Alarcón discovered on her visits to the indigenous village of San Clemente in the Andean highlands and the African-Ecuadorean hamlet of Playa de Oro in the coastal rainforest bordering Colombia, a renewed sense of community grew.
The pandemic has presented as an opportunity to re-establish community education and to restore previously abandoned infrastructure