Adeline, our farmer, sent a text message, “Please buy a smartphone for my two children.

Budget is 5,000 pesos.” Providing their children with additional learning materials was not enough in the modular distance learning in our farm community in Benguet. Schoolchildren in the higher grade levels require access to the internet and a smartphone to view YouTube videos shared by their teachers.

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