“This thing really bothering me because dem children just deh home whole day and I not there to see what dem doing. I have to work and try to catch me hand so is not more I could do because if I don’t work how I guh feed them?”
The words of a frustrated mother of four who leaves the home early in the morning and returns in the evening. Her children, like all other children in Guyana and many worldwide, have been home for the past few weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And like many parents, she is concerned that the children are not being gainfully occupied during the hours they should have been at school.