Leslie Moreno Custodio

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A tough year for school

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Clients: El País Diálogo Chino

Jairo Chuquimán atte...ble to connect to classes. Peru

Jairo Chuquimán attends an Art class through Google Meet. He and his family live in the 30 de Octubre human settlement, in Villa María del Triunfo, in the south of Lima, where they share the payment online with other relatives to be able to connect to classes. Peru

View of an area of the Villa Ma... towns with urban poverty. Peru

View of an area of the Villa María del Triunfo district from the 30 de Octubre settlement. The public water network does not reach here and the residents are supplied by tanker trucks. The situation is similar in hundreds of towns with urban poverty. Peru

Jairo Chuquimán show...rough a Google Meet class. Peru

Jairo Chuquimán shows his homework to his teacher through a Google Meet class. Peru

Yaneth Huamaní, with...te school to transfer him. Peru

Yaneth Huamaní, with her children Kevin and Giuliana in the town of 30 de Octubre. This mother was helped by her sister, who was working and studying in an institute at a distance so she could pay for the digital connection. Huamaní, who is a leader of her community, says that her son Kevin studies in a private school, but she will not be able to reach the monthly payment. He is waiting for a vacancy in a state school to transfer him. Peru

Material for students who did n... denounced irregularities. Peru

Material for students who did not complete the learning in the first year of the pandemic. In April 2020 the government announced that it would deliver electronic tablets to poor school children in rural or urban areas without internet connection or without electricity, but the purchase was canceled in July, after the press denounced irregularities. Peru

Medaly, 15, defines her time at...ee students had no signal. Peru

Medaly, 15, defines her time at school in 2020, the year of the pandemic, as "stressful." She was a junior in high school and sometimes the only cell phone for three students had no signal. Peru

Medaly and her sisters Nayeli, ...sed their courses. Peru

Medaly and her sisters Nayeli, Jimena and Yamilet, who was born during the pandemic. Despite all the difficulties, Medaly preferred to help her sisters in the 2020 school year, but also passed their courses. Peru

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A tough year for school

Copyright Leslie Moreno Custodio 2024

Updated Mar 2021

Commission for El País

Before the pandemic, only 7% of the poorest population in Peru had access to the internet. The closure of schools has meant an additional pothole for students in urban areas of the country, which despite being very close to large cities do not have any of its advantages.

Antes de la pandemia, solo un 7% de la población más pobre de Perú tenía acceso a internet. El cierre de las escuelas ha supuesto un bache adicional para los alumnos de las zonas urbanas del país, que pese a estar muy cerca de las grandes ciudades no cuentan con ninguna de sus ventajas.

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