Duterte asks for patience as gov’t scrambles to buy distance learning gadgets

President Rodrigo Duterte asked Filipinos to give him until the end of the week to find funds for the purchase of distance learning gadgets. | GabrielLaluINQ

“We will try to come up with something in the next few days. Maybe before the end of the week, I would be able to look for the money. Wala na tayong pera ngayon [we do not have any money now]. I’d look for the money to buy transistor radios to be distributed all throughout the country,” the President said.

According to Duterte, it would be a waste of time if students do not get to learn while a stay-at-home policy due to COVID-19 is adopted — especially since there is a possibility that the distance learning may be adopted for a long time. “If this would take longer, time may be wasted, ” he said in Filipino. “We might buy the radio at P300 each so that far barangays may be reached through radio. So that the poor will have a way to communicate with their teachers, even without face-to-face learning. hey can manage as long as they are interested.”

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