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  • 13 year old wide Bisharat can't log into her online class.

  • Like many Children around the world forced into remote learning during the pandemic, it's a daily struggle to keep up.

  • I struggled to enter the class because of the Internet, and I was looking after the sheep.

  • I joined the class late and it was over.

  • I also face difficulty because there is no Internet nor devices as there are other classes on for my sisters, so one has to attend class on the rest of us.

  • Don't Palestinian Bedouin students in the Jordan Valley have to deal with no access to the electrical grid.

  • Onda lack of technology needed for E learning, Her father explains.

  • He can't afford a mobile device for each of his six Children to attend class at the same time, so they all have to take turns with virtual classes.

  • He also needs his phone, went out on the hillsides with his flock.

  • Even if they did all have phones, there's not always enough electricity and power to keep the mobile fully charged at all times.

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  • N report from 2013 showed that many families living in this area controlled by Israel do not have a source of electricity due to Israeli imposed restrictions fed a win.

  • Communities in the Israeli occupied West Bank have struggled with power cuts, electricity shortages and high levels of poverty long before the coronavirus pandemic hit.

  • The introduction of remote learning is pushing the next generation even further behind.

13 year old wide Bisharat can't log into her online class.

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