Learning from the pandemic

A young boy in Ethiopia attends class at home, taking lessons via the radio, which are being broadcast across the country.
© UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye
A young boy in Ethiopia attends class at home, taking lessons via the radio, which are being broadcast across the country.
A seven-year-old girl studies at home during school closures in Georgia caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education for an estimated 1.2 billion children forcing schools across the world to learn new ways of educating children. 

In Georgia, where children living in rural areas have limited internet and cell phone service, a young girl checks homework sent by her teacher in a group chat. She shares her mother’s cell phone with her three siblings. 

© UNICEF Georgia
An eleven-year-old girl in Ecuador receives a study guide during the COVID-19 pandemic when schools closed.

Meanwhile, in a remote area of the Ecuadorian Amazon, where there is no internet access, a teacher delivers a study guide to a young girl, so she can continue with her lessons.

© UNICEF/Martin Kingman
A UNICEF volunteer transcribes lessons at home in Osh, Kyrgyzstan with her nephew as part of a UNICEF response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disabled children in Kyrgyzstan benefit from the work of UNICEF volunteers. Here, a volunteer transcribes lessons at home with her nephew.

© UNICEF Kyrgyzstan
A mobile classroom visits a Venezuelan shelter in La Paz, Bolivia.

Mobile classrooms bring learning, games, and psychosocial support, to Venezuelan refugee children living in shelters in Bolivia.

© UNHCR/William Wroblewski
In a refugee camp in Jordan, a Syrian teenager helps her younger brother and neighbour's son to study during the COVID-19 pandemic.

And in a refugee camp in Jordan, a Syrian teenage girl harnesses her passion for teaching, by helping other children with their studies.

© UNHCR/Shawkat Al-Harfoosh
Twin brothers in North Macedonia practice yoga for children as they follow a TV-classroom programme broadcast on national television.

Yoga for children is being broadcast on television in North Macedonia to help with the impact the lockdown is having on children’s mental health.

© UNICEF/Gjorgji Klincarov
A classroom is disinfected in Minia Governorate, Egypt, as schools prepare to reopen after COVID-19 closures.

In some countries, children are getting ready to return to school. Here, in Egypt classrooms are disinfected.

© UNICEF/Ahmed Mostafa
Students hold COVID-19 health education leaflets in a classroom in Qinghai Province, China.

And in China’s Qinghai Province, students received leaflets produced by UNICEF providing instructions on how to protect themselves from COVID-19.

© UNICEF/Wang Jing
Children in Côte d'Ivoire wear face masks as they return to school after temporary closures due to COVID-19.

There’s still uncertainty in many parts of the world about when and how children will return to school.

In Côte d'Ivoire, classes restarted in May with strict measures in place including masks, social distancing, and the frequent washing of hands.

© UNICEF/Frank Dejongh
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