Migrant school forced online by Covid unites children on Mexico border

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Matamoros (Mexico) (AFP) – Standing in her kitchen Alma Beatriz Serrano Ramirez waves a small board in front of her phone, hoping the students watching on the other end are paying attention to the math lesson she is teaching. The 38-year-old Honduran migrant had dreamed of settling in the United States but so far has only made it to the Mexican city of Matamoros, located on the banks of the Rio Grande River, which separates the two countries. Her pupils — Adalid, Kimberly, Osval and a handful of others — are fellow migrants, many of whom are located some 90 kilometers (55 miles) away in Reyn…

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