Helping students in India make up for lost time
KALAHANDI, India – “Children have completely forgotten what they learned two years ago,” says Jagadish, a teacher from Kalahandi, a rural area in the Indian state of Odisha. “And it’s sad to see how they are so scared to come to my centre now.” A devastating second wave of COVID-19 in the first half of 2021 forced schools across India to close,…