While many students across the Philippines have been able to take online classes, the Aeta villages in a mountainous area north of Manila are largely without internet access - or even television reception - for distance learning.
So using old bookshelves and wooden boards, the teachers built a makeshift learning centre complete with a large monitor mounted on top of a motorcycle rickshaw that can bring learning to the villages in the rural province of Pampanga. So far Aeta students had responded enthusiastically to the courses and their parents were relieved classes had resumed, the teachers say.
“Some of our Aeta cannot read ... How are they going to be able to answer the modules?” questioned Tolentino.
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Filipino teachers are trying to keep their education systems alive, Trump and DeVos are trying to put ours in a coma
If governments would support people like this instead of funneling billions into organisations or countries where most of the money gets into someone's pocket, the world would be better.