C. Listen to the following text to be read to you by your guardian then answer the questions that follow.

COVID 19: “Philippine Indigenous Schooling, face hardships

in accessing education.”

Jamela Alindogan

(Al Jazeera News, Manila) September 10,2020

Mark Gutierrez,14-year-old loves art, especially

drawing happy faces but the last few months were spent not

inside the classroom but in the field of Pampanga province,

in the Central Philippines. He is farming everyday just so he

can save $150 to buy a cellphone he needs for the newly

implemented rule of distance learning.

“We have no money, my mother has no work and my

father is a welder.”, said Mark.

The Aeta’s indigenous tribe is considered one of the

earliest inhabitants in the Philippines but for decades their

population has dwindled and now live in scattered

mountainous parts of the Luzon Region.

Sapang Uwak is a village of about 900 people and just

like most indigenous communities across the country, they

have suffered dispossession and displacement for decades,

but the Coronavirus pandemic adds another layer of difficulty

for the Aeta families here.

The Philippine government has implemented a

distance learning program for all schools to help stop the

spread of Coronavirus. Education officials say it is unlikely

that schools will reopen until a vaccine is available which

means Filipino children will have to study from home with

electricity, a laptop, and internet connecti​