The other victim

After disasters like fires, earthquakes, or typhoons, the focus is usually on the people who need help after being displaced, evacuated, or injured, and rightfully so.

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But there is another silent victim of such disasters; the education of our students.

This usually happens when disasters interrupt a school calendar, forcing students to stay home where they are safe from the elements instead of going to school. But this can also happen when evacuees are housed in schools, and children cannot use their regular classrooms. Or when school facilities themselves are destroyed by natural disasters.

The good news is that some solutions are now being proposed to deal with this problem.