‘Lost generation’ fears as COVID locks out India’s poor students
Al Jazeera
UNICEF says only one in four Indian children has access to digital devices and the internet.
CS Satheesha spells out “A-P-P-L-E” into his phone as he teaches remotely from the only place he can get a signal – a treehouse in his back garden in southern India. In the Kodagu district of Karnataka state, eight-year-old Shreeshma listens to Satheesha’s WhatsApp voice notes on her mother’s phone on her porch and repeats sentences such as: “This is a cat.” In a country where schools have been shut for more than a year, one of the longest shutdowns in the world, she and her fellow pupils are among the lucky ones.More Related News