By Ileana Leyba de Villegas | Project Leader. JAV CEO
Since March 15 our operation as all of the worlds' other have changed and have had to move forward to adapt our education contents to this new reality.
Though we count on new platforms, implementation problems are stopped due to lack of an efficient IT structure and internet availability on the side of our beneficiaries. The situation extends to all the country schools and community sites, while government commands have been to finish the school calendar on line resulting on lack of quality in the contents provided, a deep lack of preparation from the educators's side conducting to poor results based on a very weak and improvised education system that was not prepared for this impact. By the way, after expecting wifi for a week I was unable to send this report on time because I could not count with wifi or data service at home for the last week and had to obtain a permission to complete it in my office which is now close.
Though our organization have offered contents without charge, just a few youngsters have been able to enroll in some of the courses available. We hope for school or a least a few sessions in direct contact with them to continue our impact. Nowadays we are trying to organize a small group of ten young students for them to be formed with the financial tools programs we are offering in order to continue with this program for the ones who count with an IT tool. We hope to reach this small objective during the summer season.
Hard times have not yet ended. We assume the pandemic will continue impacting our country at least till september because it is now climbing to the exponential phase. Quarantine was applied two months in advance to the virus progress within the country and is just now, after four months when cases are growing unexpectedly. Nonetheless, our work has not stopped and we are sure we will emerge with more strength once we overcome this unfortunate situation.
Thanks very much to our donors for their contribution and patience at odd times.
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