Children overcoming the difficult journey to school (9 photos)

Most often, children either walk to school on their own, covering a distance of no more than a kilometer. Some are driven to school by their parents; in some countries, a special bus comes for the children, picking them up right from the doorstep. But this is not available to everyone...





There are children who are so eager to get an education that they are not afraid of any obstacles. They want to learn even at the cost of their own health, or even their lives. They overcome not just a couple of busy intersections, but stormy mountain rivers, a suspension bridge over an abyss, and much more. These places, as you might guess, are far from the usual civilization and there are no schools on every corner. It is unlikely that modern city children could imagine such dubious entertainment when they go to study.

Sangasiang Village (Indonesia)



The broken bridge is the only way to the school for the children of the village to cross the river. This is a very dangerous way to travel, but it is also the shortest, because another bridge is located 3 km from the village.

And the issue was taken up only after a photograph of children crossing the emergency bridge spread throughout the media.

Zhaojun Village (China)





A steep cliff for children from a distant mountain village. They climb a fairly steep climb of 800 meters on unstable stairs built into the rock.

They have to travel this route once every two weeks and it takes about two hours. Children go with their parents, who try to ensure the safety of schoolchildren using improvised means.

Batu Busuk Village (Indonesia)



20 children walk along a tightrope every day to get to school. This metal cable is all that remains of the suspension bridge over the river. And after overcoming this difficult route, the children walk 10 km through the forest to end up in Padang, where their school is located.

The bridge collapsed after heavy rains and no one worked on it for two years, until the whole world saw photos of the children.

Trong Hoa Village (Vietnam)



School students (several dozen of them) swim to school. On the shore, they undress, put their things and textbooks in an ordinary plastic bag and swim towards knowledge. The same bag serves them as something like an inflatable ring, because the depth of the river in some places is up to 20 meters deep.

Villages of Plempungan and Suro (Java Island)



In order not to walk the extra six kilometers, children cross the aqueduct, because this is the only way to get to the other side. No one built a bridge in front of them and the residents of the two villages move from island to island via water pipes. School students travel in such a way as to avoid spending 2 hours walking across the road.

Dekun Village (China)



To get to school, children and their parents use a homemade cable car. They fly in a metal box over an abyss. Alternative? Yes: it’s only five hours one way to get to class. Of course, everyone prefers a dangerous flight.

Genguang Village (Guizhou Province)



Children pass not only a terrifying cliff, but also a tunnel. Pupils are always accompanied by the school principal both there and back, crossing a narrow path carved into the rock, pressing against the rocks as much as possible. And in the tunnel there are many boulders hanging over the children.

Boarding school in the Himalayas



Twice a year, boarding school students have to go through a long and difficult journey through steep cliffs. Distance 201 km, walking, through four rivers and Xin Jiang Mountains. This road is very difficult, dangerous, and across the rivers you need to cross not only a two-hundred-meter chain bridge, but also homemade bridges made from just one board.