In Panama, children and their parents are suffering more and more with the prolonged closure of schools.
Érica Luna, a Nicaraguan immigrant, is 29 years old and the mother of Yoselin, 3. They live in the San Isidro neighborhood, on the outskirts of Panama City, where houses with zinc roofs emerge from hills full of vegetation. Her husband works all day and she, due to the pandemic, stopped cleaning houses; she found new work at a neighborhood market.
“The pandemic has transformed us a lot,” Luna says. “I used to take the girl to a preschool, now I can’t. There are times when I have to bring her here, to the place where I work.”
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WORLD / AMERICAS By AFP Published: Mar 10, 2021 04:48 PM Like some 890,000 other pupils, 8-year-old Brithany has not been to class in a year in Panama - the country with the most missed in-person school days due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Brithany attends an occasional online lesson on her single mother s prepaid cellphone, Milena Mendosa, who works two jobs cleaning houses and selling her wares at a market.
On some days, the online classes get canceled. On others, the cellphone network cannot handle the traffic, and Brithany ends up playing instead of learning.
Rafael, 5, participates in his virtual classes while his mother, Ana, 33, feeds her other son, in Panama City, Panama, on March 4. Photo: AFPAccording to UNICEF, the UN children s agency, schools in 14 countries have remained largely closed since March 2020 - two-thirds of them in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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PANAMA CITY, March 10, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Like some 890,000 other pupils, eight-year-old Brithany has not been to class in a year in Panama the country with the most missed in-person school days due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Brithany attends an occasional online lesson on the prepaid cellphone of her single mother, Milena Mendosa, who works two jobs cleaning houses and selling wares at a market.
On some days, the online classes get canceled. On others, the cellphone network cannot handle the traffic, and Brithany ends up playing instead of learning.
According to UNICEF, the UN’s children agency, schools in 14 countries have remained largely closed since March 2020 two-thirds of them in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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