RESPONDING TO COVID-19

Since the threats of a global pandemic, and now that it is a reality,  Waliku has been in active communication with our school-community partners about COVID-19. Through our established WhatsApp groups with school administrators, teachers and the district education office, we have been conveying important messages  and latest information about the disease from the WHO, the Indonesian Government and other trusted sources. School administrators and teachers, using their Waliku phones and free credits are communicating with school-families about important preventive hand- and respiratory- hygiene measures, social distancing and illness prevention and control. 

Sumba Barat schools have been closed since 23rd March 2020. While this public health measure has been disruptive, the local government and its  partners from NGOs and civil society are doing everything to mitigate its effects on children's learning and well-being.