According to a UNICEF report, one in three students living in poverty in Peru do not have any means of accessing technological equipment.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a campaign in Lima that seeks to ensure that children and adolescents in Peru have greater access to the education system after returning to in-person schooling.
Called “Mission Possible for Education,” the campaign seeks to raise awareness about the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on children, who returned to schools on March 28, after they remained closed for two years due to the arrival of the coronavirus in 2020.
UNICEF representative in Peru, Ana de Mendoza, told Xinhua that this initiative is “very important” because the pandemic period has left a “truly dramatic situation” in the sector of this South American country, whose educational learning loss is equivalent to about 10 years.
“First, we want everyone to be able to contribute their grain of sand, by contributing voluntarily, by donating, but also by raising the awareness of all citizens to demand that education be the priority in Peru in the next ten years,” he said.
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This campaign aims to raise funds to help equip thousands of classrooms that do not have the necessary furniture or, if they do have it, are in poor condition, and to distribute thousands of educational support kits to reduce school dropouts.
It has also been planned to distribute 4,500 tablets to reinforce the learning of those who do not have the opportunity to acquire these devices in their educational centers, located in various regions of the country such as Ucayali, Loreto, Huancavelica and North Lima.
Worrying reality
UNICEF has warned that the return to in-person schooling has brought Peru face to face with a worrying reality, as currently one in three students living in poverty do not have any means of accessing technological equipment.
The agency also estimated that since 2020, some 500,000 children and adolescents have left private education to join public education, while 705,000 have left or are at risk of dropping out of education due to the impact of the pandemic in their homes.
In the context of the return to in-person schooling, the representative considered that, “on an emotional and psychological level, it is very beneficial that the children are returning”, although she maintained that “we must support this return and the teaching staff so that they can face these situations, we must also maintain the digital skills that we have acquired in these two years of pandemic”.
To achieve the stated objectives, UNICEF has called on different sectors, both public and private, to raise at least 2 million soles (about 526,300 dollars), while citizens can join in by making donations on the organization’s website.
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2024-07-23 01:45:32
