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Trolley school helps Philippine children keep studies on track

Student volunteers ride on their makeshift trolley which serves as a mobile library for children, in Tagkawayan, Quezon Province, Philippines, February 15, 2022. Picture taken February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David

A brightly decorated wooden trolley rumbles down a little-used rail track in the southern Philippines carrying four young teachers, two on the front and two in the back pushing it along with their feet.

Kitted out with a whiteboard, colourful charts, and a stack of books, the tiny, mobile school slides along from village to village three times a week, bringing education to impoverished children near the city of Tagkawayan as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps schools shut in much of the Southeast Asian archipelago.

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