How Covid Lives a Moving Life: Vishal Check and Filling Tire Pressure To Help His Family Meet Needs Because He Does Not Have Gadgets for E-Classes
When Covid interferes with our lives, we look at technology to continue the normal resemblance – career, shopping, consultation with doctors, banking, education.
But online costs are not cheap, at least for hundreds of thousands of children who now have to depend on smartphones to continue their studies.
When two meals are a challenge, the lack of smartphones alienate the large segments of our children from basic education.
Vishal M, which you might see in bunk gasoline in Electronic City, is a poster child for how Covid loses children from their basic rights for education.
A boy who goes to school and gets a value now seen copying notes from his friend’s notebook at the gas station.
Grade 9 students are 15 years old at a government school, among thousands of children who cannot attend online classes because they do not have access to electronic gadgets such as laptops, smartphones or even the internet.
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The boy’s parents are wage workers every day and always struggle to find small jobs in the city.
They do not have a smartphone to support the education of their son.
The teacher asked me to share whatsapp numbers so he could add me to the class group and share the notes there.
But, we don’t have a smartphone – Vishal M, a student who works on a gasoline bed
Vishal is Sharu Bai and Manappa’s second child, both daily wage workers.
Vishal’s Elder Brother is a 10th grade student while his younger sister is in 7th grade.
But they all cannot go to school without a smartphone.
The 15-year-old spent his days helping his mother while he cleaned the car at a gas station in the electronic city.
Among taking school records, he filled the air in the vehicle.
He also helped his brother with his studies.
Vishal told the Bangalore Mirror which he used to score in all subjects and last year, without school, he lost his studies.
He said, “Even though the online class is underway, the teacher asks me to share whatsapp numbers so he can add me to the class group and share notes there.
But, we don’t have a smartphone.
I can’t attend last year’s classes and must be Borrowing a note from my classmate, but three months ago, I began working at the gas station to support my parents with extra money.
I don’t want to be left behind in school and decide to follow up regularly in class and study alone.
I sit on gas station and study all day, and occasionally, I fill the air in the tire.
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Vishal said that he wanted to become a military officer and wanted to study well to achieve his goal.
He said, “Three months ago, I will sit at home not do anything because I don’t have access to online classes.
I feel productive by helping my mother while my sister helped her with household tasks.
I worked between o’clock 07.00 until 19:00, which I Get Rs 4,000 a month.
This applies to support our family.
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Manha J, a local, and founder and President Shri Krishna Mahila Seva Universal, saw him sitting in the corner of the gas station and studying.
He said, “I tried to arrange a smartphone and also helped him with English.
We have advised the family not to send it out to work and let him focus on his studies.
The mother tells me that he just helped him with some small work, however, I insisted on him Don’t allow this.
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Once, everything you need to go to school is a piece of chalk and slate, or some notebooks and pencils.
But now, technology has become a barrier to the dream of hundreds of Vishals.
Does Silicon City of India have a solution?