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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - Tens of thousands of students in southern Brazil have been gone a month without seeing their classrooms after catastrophic floods submerged some schools and turned others into shelters, raising concerns about their mental health.
Rains that started in late April have swollen several rivers and lakes in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul to record highs, causing floods that killed at least 169 people and left more than 580,000 displaced, according to state officials. "We have impacts on infrastructure, physical and material; we have pedagogical impacts; we have psychological, and we have emotional impacts", Teixeira said.
"To have this situation in our last year of school, plus to have lost our last years of elementary school , gives us ... a very bad feeling," said Sophia Souza Assumpcao, a high school senior at Roosevelt.
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