If you thought your commute to work this morning was bad, take a look at
the journey these children have to make each day to school.
From riding a zip wire over the Rio Negro in Colombia to clinging to the
remains of a collapsed rope bridge in Indonesia, students have to be
wide awake to navigate these precarious routes.
And if you moan about having to cram on to a packed train or bus each
day, how about sharing a tiny horse cart with thirty five people,
clinging to tyre tube while drifting down a river, or riding a donkey
for five hours up a narrow mountain pass?
These startling images will make that stuffy, over-crowded train carriage look like a walk in the park...
On the edge: This
young child and his grandfather have to negotiate a narrow, rocky
mountain pass on the way to a primary school in Sichuan province, China.
The Gulu village's school is located halfway up the mountain and is the
most remote in the world
Rocky road: It takes
Shen Qicai and his grandfather five hours to climb from the base of the
mountain to the Gulu village primary school. Children must travel along a
path that is just a couple of feet wide in some parts and has a sheer
drop on one side down into the canyon below
Determined: Students
in Indonesia cling to steel bars on a broken bridge as they cross
Ciherang River near their village in Lebak Regency. A pillar supporting
one side of the crossing collapsed, leaving the wooden planks that acted
as a path tilted to one side
Mind the gap: A group
of girls walk across a narrow plank on the walls of the 16th century
Galle fort to reach their school in Sri Lanka
Don't look down! For
most people, a zip wire is a novel thrill but for these villagers, it's
part of their daily commute across the Rio Negro river in Colombia
Taking the shortcut:
For the handful of families living in the area 40 miles southeast of
Colombia's capital Bogota, the wire is their only access to the outside
world. It is 1,300ft above the Rio Negro and whizzes travellers across
the river at 40mph to the opposite bank, half a mile away
Close to collapse:
This bridge on the island of Sumatra was destroyed by heavy rain. The
determined pupils from the Batu Busuk village who cross it every day
then have to walk a further seven miles through dense forest to their
school in the town of Padang
These students from
Cilangkap village had to construct a bamboo raft to get to school after a
bridge across the Ciherang river in Indonesia's Lebak Regency collapsed
Maximum capacity: A single horse cart ferries more than thirty-five children to school on the outskirts of New Delhi in India
Battling through a blizzard: A
villager and her daughter attempt to cross a broken wooden bridge
covered in snow in Sichuan Province, China. The bridge is the only
connection to the outside world for people living in the Shawan village
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