Chalkboard to app: Colombia’s indigenous children switch to remote learning

A Colombian child uses the OLab app in La Guajira, Colombia. Children can choose subjects on the app ranging from science and music to literature and maths, as well as information on Covid-19 prevention and how to surf the Internet safely. — El Origen Foundation/Reuters

BOGOTA: Armed with tablets, dozens of indigenous and Venezuelan migrant children in Colombia’s northern desert region are learning at home while the coronavirus pandemic keeps schools shut.

Youth charity El Origen Foundation has distributed tablets to about 260 children from the Wayuu tribe in the rural, goat-herding La Guajira province bordering Venezuela.