Nelson counsellor works online with university students in Central Asia during pandemic

Robin Higgins, from Nelson in Canada was in her fourth year of work as a counsellor at the University of Central Asia (UCA) in Khorog, Tajikistan when the university closed because of the pandemic. Now she’s teaching and counselling her students in their homes, online from Nelson. She says it has been a challenge for the UCA students to study and be counselled from their homes. She said because of a lack of social safety nets, many feel an urgent responsibility to get an education and a good job so they can care for their parents and siblings, now or in the future.