The COVID-19 pandemic closed their school, but it also thrust a group of disadvantaged Mexican children living next to a giant garbage dump into the digital world.
A project teaching the students how to use computers and the Internet has given them hope of a life far from the trash mountain where their parents work recycling waste.
Miguel Tejeda had never used a computer before COVID-19 arrived, because there were no machines in the 14-year-old’s school in Chimalhuacan, located in the urban sprawl surrounding the capital, New Mexico.
However, for the past six months, he and 200 other students aged five to 21
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