CARACAS – Jenashly Matos may only be 9, but she has big dreams of one day becoming a doctor and helping people.
The challenges she faces growing up today in a poor barrio in Venezuela's capital amid a historic pandemic are also hefty.The novel coronavirus has shut down schools in Venezuela and throughout Latin America.
To keep from falling behind, she's started attending a neighborhood tutorial for a couple hours each morning to get help with assignments her teacher sends home.“If I’m not learning, I feel like I’m nobody in life,” she said, while studying the parts of speech. “That’s why I come here.”The pandemic has left millions of students falling behind in the world’s most unequal region, a study released Monday finds.