Blessed
Education, in countries like Colombia during this pandemic has for me been one of the most affected sectors. I have two little cousins who for economic reasons live in the countryside, and studying for them is a journey in normal times, because they have to walk approximately 30 minutes to go and 30 minutes to return to their school, and in this pandemic everything has been difficult for them because of the lack of connectivity both at home and at school in this rural area where they live. How can it be that in 2020 a school cannot provide adequate accompaniment for a child? It seems that this is not only the case for my cousins. A study by the Laboratorio de Economía de la Educación (LEE), of the Universidad Javeriana, reveals that 96 percent of the country's municipalities could not implement virtual lessons because less than half of the ten million public school students (about 37 percent) have a computer and Internet at home. Luz Karime Abadía, co-director of...