Floods trigger education crisis
José is 8 years old and his favourite subject is mathematics. He normally attends the Mangalito School in Trinidad, the capital of the Bolivian Department of Beni. But for the past three months, his school in the low-lying part of northern Bolivia has been closed.
Since late December 2013, flooding across the country has affected an estimated 315,000 people. The flooding has been especially severe in the low lying Amazon regions in the country’s north and east.
Authorities have reported extensive damage to infrastructure. The Ministry of Education reports that approximately 1,000 schools have been damaged, affecting an estimated 250,000 students.
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