Foreign teachers struggle to stay afloat amid pandemic

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A foreigner teaches English to Vietnamese students at an open park in HCMC in 2018. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen

 

As their livelihoods snatched by the Covid-19 pandemic, many foreign teachers are running online classes at cheap rates to survive, while others have left Vietnam.

 

When Daniel Payne left South Africa to take up a teaching job at a school in Ho Chi Minh City in 2019, he envisioned an exciting life with a lot of new friends, fun and adventure.

 

Now the 31-year-old normally starts his day in the afternoon by looking for job on Facebook, teaching only two online classes a week.

 

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