Teacher Mirelsa Doebe is filmed giving a lesson in the classroom of a village hit by devastating flooding in central Suriname, so local children can continue learning remotely. Heavy rainfall since January led rivers to burst their banks in the small South American nation, forcing the state energy firm, Staatsolie Power Company Suriname, to open scuppers at a hydroelectric power station in early March to avoid an even greater catastrophe. That, in turn, resulted in the flooding of several villages in Brokopondo district, around 100 kilometers south of the capital Paramaribo. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES