A teacher of the Utopia civil association gives a computer science lesson to local children at the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. The Covid-19 pandemic made schools close down but also allowed low-income children living in front of a municipal garbage dump in Mexico get to learn computer science with the help of an NGO. — AFP
SANTA MARÍA CHIMALHUACAN, Mexico: The coronavirus pandemic closed their school, but it also thrust a group of disadvantaged Mexican children living next to a giant garbage dump into the digital world.
A project teaching the students how to use computers and the Internet has given them hope of a life far from the trash mountain where their parents work recycling waste.
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A teacher of the Utopia civil association gives a computer science lesson to local children at the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. The Covid-19 pandemic made schools close down but also allowed low-income children living in front of a municipal garbage dump in Mexico get to learn computer science with the help of an NGO. — AFP
Children attend a computer science class at the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. — AFP
Gael Rojas attends a computer science class at the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. — AFP
Children attend a computer science class at the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. — AFP
Norma Arely Hernandez (C) attends a computer science class at the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. — AFP
Children attend a computer science class at the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. — AFP
A child walks at the Escalerillas neighborhood with the municipal garbage dump in the background in Chimalhuacan, Mexico state, Mexico. — AFP
Gael Rojas plays with a cell phone at his home after his computer science class in the Escalerillas neighborhood in Chimalhuacan, Mexico. — AFP
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