Teachers roll with the times

Getting creative: Aeta students watching instructional videos on a monitor mounted on top of a rickshaw in Porac, Pampanga province. — Reuters

When the pandemic shut Philippine schools, a group of teachers living near the indigenous Aeta people became so concerned about the impact on the children of the isolated community that they initiated a novel approach to help them – learning by rickshaw.

While many students across the Philippines have been able to take online classes, the Aeta villages in a mountainous area north of Manila are largely without Internet access – or even television reception – for distance learning.