Sisters Guide Remote Learning in Dop-Shari, Paro
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KUENSELTHAT THE PEOPLE SHALL BE INFORMED MONDAY, A UGUST 10, 2020t/V His Majesty returns after inspecting border in Samtse and P/ling HM walked across villages along the border meeting people and reminding them of the dangers of community transmission His Majesty The King is back in Thim- phu after a two-week Royal Tour of the south to review and reinforce security measures in place, with active Covid-19 cases on the rise in the neighbourhood. His Majesty visited the border areas to personally talk to the people about the growing threat of community transmis- sions. While the borders have been closed since March 23, several instances of peo- ple clandestinely crossing the border and )JT.BKFTUZ5IF,JOHTQFBLTUPBXPNBOBUIFSIPNFJO5IPOHMJOHWJMMBHF 4BNQIFMJOHHFXPHJO$IVLIB avoiding quarantine have shown that the "MPOHUIFLN#IVUBO*OEJBCPSEFS UIFSFBSFNBOZTVDIWJMMBHFTXIFSF#IVUBOFTFIPNFTBSFBUBTUPOFT border areas are particularly vulnerable UISPXGSPN*OEJBOOFJHICPVST to an outbreak, Pg 2 De-Suups COVID-19 and police Sisters guide BHUTAN - 108 rescue eight remote learning people GLOBAL Yangyel Lhaden COVID-19 in Dop-Shari, Paro SITUATION De-Suups and police in Thimphu rescued eight Phub Dem | Paro from the USA because of the erate, lack guidance and do people, in two different Covid-19 pandemic, pro- not own electronic gadgets. groups, from the jungles he wants to be posed to guide 10 students Besides helping the stu- 19,817,456 above Thimphu in the early an engineer, this with e-learning. She had dents with regular assign- CONFIRMED CASES hours of Sunday, in a search one, a 10-year- a bitter experience coping ments, the tutor’s engage the and rescue operation that old with cropped with online learning herself. students with cocurricular started around 9:30pm on hair wearing a She wanted to help these lit- activities such as drawing, Saturday. Snylon full kira. She puts it in tle kids. E-learning is a new dancing, reading and listen- Three trekkers who were her journal. concept in Bhutan. Primary ing skills, among others. 12,523,648 doing the Druk Path trek The classroom is a tiny students without “literate” Youth Development RECOVERED from Paro to Thimphu lost one, like the little ones there- guidance suffer the most. Fund and UNICEF help Kin- their way around Pum-La. in prattling, here at Dop- From Shari, Kinley saw ley with the programme to Around 9pm, they called the Shari gewog centre where how the students were strug- guide remote learning. toll free number (1411) of students from Pre-primary gling with e-learning. So, Although more than 30 729,748 the Coordination and Media to four are learning together. along with her two cousins students came to register, Centre (CMC) for Covid-19 In all, there are 10 of them. who are students of Ugyen Kinley said that the ceiling DEATHS managed by De-Suups. Kinley Pelmo Gyeltshen, Academy, identified the stu- was set at 10 to maintain Source: The Straits Times, ANN Pg 2 a student who returned home dents whose parents are illit- Covid-19 protocol. Pg 2 As of August 9, 2020 HOME PAGE 2 Monday, August 10, 2020| KUENSEL His Majesty returns after inspecting border in Samtse and P/ling From Pg 1 tegic locations to assist the not come in contact with the unteers on patrol duty. staff of schools and institutions and the community needs to be volunteers. New outposts have virus. His Majesty reiterated His Majesty visited high- and factory workers. All RDT vigilant and prepared. also been setup in an effort to to the local leaders that going risk areas close to the Phuent- results have come out negative. Armed forces personnel, increase vigilance. forward, settlements along the sholing border and Jharna, Meanwhile, in the past De-Suups, forestry officials, and In Samtse, His Majesty met border should be extra cautious between Pasakha and Phuent- month, His Majesty granted officials from customs, immi- with people living in villages and continue their good efforts. sholing. His Majesty also Audiences to De-Suups of the gration, and land commission, near the border in Ugyentse, In Phuentsholing, where the granted Audiences to gups 41st batch accelerated train- together with retired armed Yoeseltse, Sang-Ngag-Chhoe- temperatures have soared to and mangmis of 11 gewogs of ing programme at Damthang, forces personnel and com- ling and Tashichhoeling ge- over 40 degrees Celsius this past Chhukha, and frontline work- Jigmeling, Pelrithang, Tashigat- munity volunteers have been wogs. His Majesty also visited week, His Majesty walked across ers in Phuentsholing. Thanking shel, Tashichhoeling, Tendruk, patrolling the long and porous shops in Samtse town to see six villages along the border in them for their services at a time Tencholing, Shaba, and Dech- borders since the closure. how the pandemic has affected Sampheling gewog, meeting when they were most needed, encholing. With the comple- From about 200 De-Suups local businesses. people and reminding them of His Majesty Commanded them tion of the current batch, the patrolling the border in Samtse His Majesty thanked the the dangers if the virus spreads to continue their efforts with total number of De-Suups will a month ago, the number has local leaders of Samtse and in the community. While going increased vigour. reach 14,844. Volunteers from now been increased to over people living along the border from village to village, His Maj- The health ministry con- the three batches of acceler- 400. Several CCTV cameras for their continuous efforts esty also visited all the outposts ducted over 16,000 random ated training programme have have been installed at all stra- in ensuring Bhutanese do along the way and met with vol- rapid diagnostics tests (RDT) to been instrumental in providing rule out any possible commu- relief to those who have been nity transmission of Covid-19. on patrol duty at the borders The samples included those of since March. Sisters guide remote frontline workers, people living His Majesty was accompa- and working near the border, nied by the Prime Minister, Chief truck and taxi drivers, out-pa- Operations Officer of the RBA, learning in Dop-Shari, Paro tients in hospitals, students and and Chief of RBP during the tour. De-Suups and police rescue eight people From Pg 1 tery base. Thimphu De-Suup Event Coordinator Rinchen Coordinator for Covid-19, Tshering said that unlike Rinchen Tshering said that after the first rescue, the second informing the police, De-Suups team was harder to find as dispatched two teams from the they started to move on and Quick Response Team to search made locating them difficult for the lost trekkers in two di- even with GPS. They were Kinley Pelmo Gyeltshen helping students with their assignments at Dop-Shari gewog rections from Phajoding base first traced to be in between at around 9:30pm. Chokhortse and Phajoding. From Pg 1 room every night. scored 88 percentage. After tracing their mobile They were finally rescued from The sisters provide the stu- Ngawang said the lessons Yangday, a mother of three, phone signals, De-Suups found the junction between Phajod- dents with their mobile phones, aired on BBS were challenging. asked her children to repeat that they were around the Pum- ing and Chokhortse at around laptops, and reading materials. “I had a tough time before the next year. They refused. Yang- La area. They were asked not 3:00am. Ngawang Yangchen Lham, tutors turned up. I thought I day is a caretaker of Dop-Shari to stray away and light a fire to “There was miscommuni- a grade four student, spends would fail for sure.” Lhakhang and does not own make it easier for the search cation whereby the students her weekdays writing online as- When asked about his ex- television. She sought help team. One of the trekkers had a were informed to move while signments at the gewog centre. perience with mobile learning, from the educated lot to teach whistle which helped the rescue no one from the team called Like many students, she last Sangay Wangchuk, a grade four and guide her children. team locate them. The trekkers them to move,” Rinchen Tsher- attended school until March, student from the same school Yangday said that the guid- were rescued between 10pm ing said. “It was challenging as before schools had to be closed said: “I struggle a lot.” ance programme at the gewog and 11pm. the fog and rain reduced vis- due to the Covid-19. She has He was a “below average” came as a blessing. “Now I Meanwhile, while the res- ibility,” he added. been learning via Wechat and student in school. And he had don’t have to worry about my cue team was climbing down One of the five hikers Google Classroom. wasted more than four months children’s education.” with the three trekkers, the was injured after the hikers Although she is a bright, helping his mother with the Another parent, Pem, said: CMC received another call started running away from articulate student of Gaupel household chores. The tutors “I hope the schools reopen from five hikers who reported possible wild animal at- Lower Secondary School, she said that he hadn’t submitted soon.” that they had lost their way. tack. Rinchen Tshering said found e-learning complicated. any of his home assignments As her school reopened, The hikers, five college that one of the students had “I used my mother’s phone before he joined the class at the Kinley Pelmo Gyeltshen students, lost their way while sprained his leg and suffered to access the assignments on gewog. had to discontinue the pro- returning from the Phajoding injuries on his chest.