Students rely on online classes during this time. However, not everyone can afford to take classes online. There are some areas where it is difficult to have phone signal and data connection. Two sisters are in the same predicament. They live in hilly areas. Phone signals are not available at home. That's why they are taking classes online by climbing a huge tree in the distance.
Speaking of two young sisters in Salvador, Brazil! They climb to the top of a hill every day, then sit on an olive tree there to get a mobile signal. That's how they have to take online university lessons. Since the closure of all educational institutions in the country in March due to the epidemic, not only these two sisters, but thousands of people in the marginalized areas have been suffering.
It is very difficult to get a mobile phone signal in the El Tigre area bordering El Salvador in Guatemala. So, the students of Tallat are struggling to take online classes using the internet through their mobiles. Matilda, a 22-year-old math student, is one of the two sisters. "There is no internet connection" he said.
She and her 19-year-old sister, Marlene, a statistics student, went to class together. The seventh and eighth of 10 siblings are fighting for their dream of graduating from the state university of El Salvador as the first member of their family. Castillo Ruiz, a local police officer, saw Matilda take a class like this while patrolling the hills of El Tigre. That's when the touching story of these two sisters came to light.
Ruiz said that one day when he saw a young woman sitting on an olive tree on the top of a hill on the way, he first thought that something must have happened to him. I just wanted to go on and ask what the answer was, I just want to continue studying. Surprised, the police officer took a picture and posted it on Facebook. That post goes viral.
To reach the top of the hill, the two sisters had to walk about a mile [1 km] on a slippery path, avoiding snake bites during the monsoon season. They brought with them a foldable table and chairs. And he keeps an umbrella on his head when it rains. There are also poisonous insects hiding in the trees. Ignoring everything, these two sisters have taken such a risk to study.
Outside of school, the sisters help their father by selling bread on weekends. His father was a farmer by profession. Meanwhile, Eric Palacios, a university student living in Ojo de Aguirre, 20 kilometers west of the country's capital San Salvador, also had to climb a rocky mountain to get an internet connection on his mobile phone.
Palacios, a 20-year-old student in the Department of Communications at the private Jose Matias Delgado University. He has to sit on three bricks, hold an umbrella over his head and take part in an online class. There is no relief in that either. Because mosquitoes are deadly. He has decided to collect signatures from other students in the area and send the application along with the appropriate authorities so that internet service can be launched there. El Salvador is divided vertically by numerous volcanoes. And because of this, it is difficult to get the signal of the mobile phone.
According to Internet World Status, about 60 percent of the country's 600,000 inhabitants are Internet users. Meanwhile, a report released by UNICEF on Wednesday states that 483 million children worldwide are unable to attend online classes in the global epidemic of coronavirus.
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