Erika Cordero explains a homework assignment to her young charges in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. Cordero, 33, tutors small groups of neighborhood children in her mother's home. They cover everything from long division to reading, said Cordero, who sees too many children falling behind. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Children play in a park in a residential complex in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Nov, 4, 2020. The economic hit to Latin America and the Caribbean countries amid the new cornavirus pandemic is expected to reduce school budgets across the region by 9 percent, marking a dramatic reversal to a steady rise in spending before the pandemic, researchers said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Jenashly Matos stands inside her bedroom in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. The 9-year-old has big dreams of one day becoming a doctor and helping people. But the challenges she faces growing up today in a poor barrio in Venezuela's capital amid a historic pandemic are hefty. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Books donated by the Venezuelan charity, "Feed the Solidarity”, sit on a table in a living room in the home of a volunteer who tutors children in the neighborhood of San Agustin in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov, 3, 2020. The novel coronavirus has shut down schools in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. To keep from falling behind, some children attend neighborhood tutorials for a couple hours each morning to get help with assignments teachers send home. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A young student arrives at a soup kitchen run by the Venezuelan charity, "Feed the Solidarity", in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. The pandemic has left millions of students falling behind in the world's most unequal region, a UNICEF study finds, released on Monday, Nov. 9. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Rosa Carrera tells children a story during an event run by the Venezuelan charity, "Feed the Solidarity", in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov, 3, 2020. Pandemic lockdowns, teacher shortages and electricity outages are forcing many Venezuelan students to advance their education outside the traditional brick and mortar school setting. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Erika Cordero, center right, looks over a student's homework at the entrance of a soup kitchen in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. "I have kids who are in fourth or fifth grade who can't even read," Cordero said. "I'm not a teacher, but hey, God willing, let's help them achieve their goal anyway I can." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Saray Farías sits with with 3 of her 4 children, from left to right, Jeison, 11, Jelian, 5, and Jenashly, 9, in their home in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. Farías, said she worries about the future of Venezuela, as it fails to prepare its next generation. She tries to help all four of her children between the ages of 5 and 15 with their school work, but she admits it's often too time consuming and sometimes mind-bending. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Jenashly Matos walks back home after attending a tutorial class at a soup kitchen run by the Venezuelan charity, "Feed the Solidarity", in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. "If I'm not learning, I feel like I'm nobody in life," said the 9-year-old. "That's why I come here." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Children look at books donated by the Venezuelan charity, "Feed the Solidarity", at a home where children are tutored by volunteers, in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Nov, 3, 2020. The U.N. children's agency UNICEF says that the COVID-19 has deprived 97% of children in Latin America and the Caribbean of their normal schooling over seven months since the continent's first COVID-19 cases were discovered. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A student uses an apparatus to learn the alphabet under the tutelage of Erika Cordero, in the El Atlantico neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Nov, 2, 2020. Distance learning is especially challenging for many families who don't have reliable tools, like the internet, computers, TV and radio, further dividing the rich and poor. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Children attend a play in a place that tutors children amid the new cornavirus pandemic, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Nov, 4, 2020. While many schools in Africa, Asia and Europe are gradually reopening, half of 36 countries in Latin American and Caribbean, the doors to classrooms remain shut. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)