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Education is one of the best possible investments there is for a child and her or his future, family and country. For this reason, world leaders came together in 2015 and recognized the right of every child to a quality education. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, too many children were not getting the education they deserve –especially girls, children from low-income households, those with disabilities and children living through conflict or other humanitarian emergencies. Now, over 1 billion children are having their education disrupted by schools that have closed for weeks, or more likely months, to come.
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![Nassir, 12, is a 4th grade student in the Somali region in Ethiopia. He is out of school but thanks to Save the Children's mobile library, he is able to continue his reading and learning at home.
In his own words:
"Our teacher told us that the coronavirus, what we call Dury Arorey here [which means the angry influenza in the Somali language] is a tiny organism that we cannot see with our eyes. He also told us it spreads when sick people cough and sneeze near others. People who are sick have symptoms like cough, fever and have trouble breathing,
I wish I could go to school, but our school is closed and I feel sad and upset that I cannot go to school. I miss my friends in school. When we were in school, we used to play different games with my friends. I often think of them. Before the coronavirus, the school fed us meals each school day, but now the school feeding program has stopped. I hope it will start again soon.
Our teacher also taught us how to protect others and ourselves from the coronavirus. Some of the things we learned are to wash our hands with soap and water, wave to people instead of shaking hands and we have to stay at least one metre away from people.
We know we have to wash our hands but water is very scarce here. Therefore, it is very difficult for us to get enough water and soap to wash our hands and protect ourselves from the virus.
I am scared of the Dury Arorey . I worry the virus could spread here in our village and hurt many people I know.
Schools are closed but the mobile reading camp still comes to our village once a week. The librarian lends us storybooks that we can take home to read. I borrow different storybooks from the reading camp. I find it fun reading stories to my family at home. It also helps me improve my reading skills
On behalf of the children in my village, I would like to say please bring us clean water and soaps so we keep clean and protect ourselves from this virus
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