Extreme heat closing schools, widening learning gaps worldwide
Voice of America
Grade 12 students use hand fans as they attend a class at the Commonwealth High School in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, April 18, 2024. FILE - An empty classroom of a school named Udayan Uchcha Madhyamik Bidyalaya, is pictured as all schools are closed due to on going heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 25, 2024. Grade 12 students use a portable electric fan and hand fans inside a classroom at the Commonwealth High School, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, April 18, 2024.
Hena Khan, a ninth-grade student in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital city.
A displaced Palestinian woman stands with children as they prepare to flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City, in the southern Gaza Strip May 13, 2024. This handout image shows a field hospital operated by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 10, 2024.
FILE - A student walks around the University of New South Wales campus in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. FILE - An entrance to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 23, 2022. In this photo provided by Duke University, commencement speaker Jerry Seinfeld speaks during the school's graduation ceremony, May 12, 2024, in Durham, N.C. A tiny contingent of graduates opposed the pro-Israel comedian speaking at their commencement Sunday. FILE - An entrance to the main Duke University campus is seen in Durham, NC, Jan. 28, 2019. FILE - Students walk to and from classes on the Indiana University campus, Oct. 14, 2021, in Bloomington, Ind.
FILE - This photo taken on April 29, 2024, shows Kayah people gathering at a delivery of drinking water by the charity Clean Yangon at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township, in Myanmar's eastern Kayah state. Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref, Sudan, on May 12, 2024. A street in the city of Omdurman damaged in the year-long civil war in Sudan, April 7, 2024.