Coronavirus: Venezuelans struggle to educate kids amid pandemic lockdown

María Figueroa often climbs onto the rooftop of her building in Venezuela’s capital clutching a phone and laptop looking for a signal and has paid to run an internet cable to her neighbour’s home, as she struggles to educate her children remotely amid a coronavirus lockdown.But these workarounds often end in frustration, she says, reflecting the difficulties of teaching children online in technology-challenged Venezuela, where flipping on the light switch can be a luxury and a strong internet…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3084680/coronavirus-venezuelans-struggle-educate-kids-amid-pandemic