Dear friends, I have a lot of respect and admiration for parents who are guiding their children though challenging times as their kids try to learn how to learn at home during this pandemic. But unfortunately, families living in extreme poverty have been hit unusually hard. Roughly a third of the world’s schoolchildren, or nearly 600 million, remain affected by pandemic-related closures, according to UNICEF. Some 463 million schoolchildren worldwide lack Internet, television or radio, and have been left with almost no access to education. Children in poverty, in rural areas, adolescent girls, and disabled children have the least access to continuing their education. |