95% of children across the globe can't access traditional classrooms due to the coronavirus. To continue education, teachers are turning to one thing over half the world's population has: cellphones.
Standing in front of a small tropical tree, a man in flip-flops, trousers and a polo shirt bends over what he calls, in a video made for NPR, a"handwashing facility".
"After getting some soap, you rub the hands well to identify the areas where germs can be," says the man in the video: Agaba Emmanuel. He's a community educator in Uganda with a program called Soma Soma. Next, Mukandayisenga Chantal, a small boy in a blue T-shirt, gives it a try, making circles with his fingernails on his palms.hosts more than 100,000 people
But the schools are still shut, along with other restrictions on commerce and transportation across Uganda to protect against the pandemic. People need basic information about social distancing and other protections. Emmanuel got the information he needed to educate his community over WhatsApp, using a platform designed by an American company that's also starting to be used with students in the United States.
Some private schools in wealthy places are attempting to teach over video chat in near real-time. But laptops, tablets and high-speed Internet just aren't available to everyone, whether that's students in rural Uganda or the working-class suburbs of Las Vegas.
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