Children anxious of post-Covid-19 life

About 40 percent children in Bangladesh believe that life after the coronavirus lockdown will be more complicated, found a study conducted by Educo, an international NGO focusing on education and children's protection.

More than 500 Bangladeshi children participated in the global survey, held online between May 7 to 23.

A total of 4,500 children and youth aged between five to twenty-four participated in  the study conducted across 10 countries in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, schools in Bangladesh have remained closed since late March. In the meantime, a number of schools are running classes online.

Against such a backdrop, the Educo study sheds some light on the state of the student's minds. Although children are not normally seen as the face of this pandemic, experiences suggest that such economic hardships have tremendous effect on their emotional and mental wellbeing, said Abdul Hamid, country director of Educo Bangladesh.

"Children are very aware of what is going on around them and the impact of the situation on the family," he said in a statement released on Thursday.

With no end of the pandemic in sight, students and their parents are completely in the dark over when schools can reopen, the study found. It also study found that children in Bangladesh were mostly worried about their family's finances.