As a child we never got a lift to school. In Primary School it was on foot albeit only for half a dozen blocks. High School was a little further, so I cycled to school. Given the fact that my mother could not drive, and that we were a one car family, that was our lot. In my children’s generation, they never experienced the pleasures of walking or cycling to school as they were fetched and carried.
In the case of many third world children, even our experiences are minor in comparison. This blog highlights their plight or perhaps that their real determination to obtain an education.
Main picture: Children of Gulu in China should be run up to 5 hours on a cliff path that is sometimes 50 inches wide to reach their schools
Children climb the wooden ladders unattached in China’s Zhang Jiawa village in China
Children and parents use an ice road to travel to Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas
Schoolgirls cross a suspension bridge in Lebrak Indonesia
Children crossing a decrepit bridge
Children forced to go to school in Tyrol 800 meters above the river Rio Negro in Colombia
Indonesian Riau children go to school by canoe
Children crossing on roots of giant trees on the side of Mawsynram,the wettest town in the world
A little girl from the back of a buffalo join his school in Myanmar
A tuk-tuk, a vehicle with three wheels, picks up Beldanga school children in India
1. A father and daughter through a broken bridge under the snow in Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province, China
Children traveling on the roof of a boat near Pangururan Indonesia
Girls walk gingerly across a board on a wall of the sixteenth century in Sri Lanka
A crowded cart of schoolchildren in Delhi, India
Girls cross a river on a bamboo raft near the village of Cilangkap Indonesia
Children and adults borrow a path of 200 km through the mountain to reach the boarding school in Pili in China
School children crossing a river with a rope in Padang on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia
Children crossing a river on inner tubes at Rizal in the Philippines
