Post by: AngelOfThyNight on February 05, 2021, 02:13:15 PM
Learning remotely during a pandemic has been difficult for most students, but for children and families living in homeless shelters, the task has felt impossible at times. As the executive director of social services non-profit BronxWorks, my heart sank when schools closed in March. One aspect of our robust social service work is managing three family shelters, and New York City shelters are not equipped with WiFi -- how could students possibly attend school remotely without a reliable internet connection?
Source: How we got WiFi to students in our family shelters (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/7T-kxDhyBS0/index.html)