Sunday, June 2, 2013

Extreme Road To School


While I believe many of these schools are at the very remote parts of their countries where the population are sparse and scattered but I also noticed that in some cases the government had not done what they are supposed to do for their people like repairing the collapsed suspension bridge at Pintu Gabang & Dujiangyan, build another suspension bridge beside the aqueduct and construct a safer "cable car" at Decun. As for the 5000-strong school in Macheng where the children have to carry their own desks and chairs to school, I find it mind boggling especially with the photo where the mother has a motorbike and yet cannot donate a desk and chair to the school!! The school is in a town with affordable town folks (though not everyone)!! and yet they prefer to ferry the desks and chairs to the school everyday and not donating it to the school!!

Children walk along a narrow
                                  mountain road to get to school in
                                  Bijie, southwest China's Guizhou
                                  Province. Banpo Elementary School is
                                  located halfway up a mountain and each
                                  day students from the nearby Genguan
                                  village have to climb a narrow winding
                                  footpath cut into the
                                  mountainside...Picture: HAP/Quirky
                                  China News / Rex Features
Children walk along a narrow mountain road to get to school in Bijie, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Banpo Elementary School is located halfway up a mountain and each day students from the nearby Genguan village have to climb a narrow winding footpath cut into the mountainside...Picture: HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features
The footpath is cut through the
                                  cliff face at points. It is less than
                                  0.5 metres wide in places so the
                                  children have to walk single file and
                                  press themselves into the side of the
                                  mountain is someone wants to squeeze
                                  past. According to headmaster Xu
                                  Liangfan the school has 49
                                  students.Picture: HAP/Quirky China
                                  News / Rex Features
The footpath is cut through the cliff face at points. It is less than 0.5 metres wide in places so the children have to walk single file and press themselves into the side of the mountain is someone wants to squeeze past. According to headmaster Xu Liangfan the school has 49 students.Picture: HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features
A
                                  boy climbs a wire across a river to
                                  get to school in Pintu Gabang,
                                  Indonesia. These children have to
                                  tightrope walk 30 feet above a flowing
                                  river to get to their class on time
                                  and then walk a further seven miles
                                  through the forest to their school in
                                  the town of Padang...Picture: Panjalu
                                  Images / Barcroft Media
A boy climbs a wire across a river to get to school in Pintu Gabang, Indonesia. These children have to tightrope walk 30 feet above a flowing river to get to their class on time and then walk a further seven miles through the forest to their school in the town of Padang...Picture: Panjalu Images / Barcroft Media
Each day 20 determined pupils
                                  have to cross the local river like
                                  circus performers after the suspension
                                  bridge collapsed in heavy
                                  rain.Picture: Panjalu Images /
                                  Barcroft Media
Each day 20 determined pupils have to cross the local river like circus performers after the suspension bridge collapsed in heavy rain.Picture: Panjalu Images / Barcroft Media
Teacher Li Guilin helps children
                                  climb one of five rickety wooden
                                  ladders to reach their school on a
                                  cliff 2,800m above sea level, in
                                  Gangluo County, Sichuan Province,
                                  China. The children would spend the
                                  week at the school before repeating
                                  the dangerous journey in order to get
                                  home for the weekend...Picture: Quirky
                                  China News / Rex Features
Teacher Li Guilin helps children climb one of five rickety wooden ladders to reach their school on a cliff 2,800m above sea level, in Gangluo County, Sichuan Province, China. The children would spend the week at the school before repeating the dangerous journey in order to get home for the weekend...Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features
The wooden ladders on the
                                  approach to the school have been
                                  replaced with a metal staircase that
                                  makes the ascent much easier and
                                  safer.Picture: Quirky China News / Rex
                                  Features
The wooden ladders on the approach to the school have been replaced with a metal staircase that makes the ascent much easier and safer.Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features
A
                                  school child crosses ane aqueduct that
                                  separates Suro Village and Plempungan
                                  Village in Java, Indonesia.The
                                  children decided to use the aqueduct
                                  on their journey to school as a
                                  shortcut, even though it wasn't made
                                  for people to walk on...Picture:
                                  Panjalu Images / Barcroft Media
A school child crosses ane aqueduct that separates Suro Village and Plempungan Village in Java, Indonesia.The children decided to use the aqueduct on their journey to school as a shortcut, even though it wasn't made for people to walk on...Picture: Panjalu Images / Barcroft Media
Even though it is dangerous, the
                                  children say would rather use it than
                                  walk a distance over six
                                  kilometers.Picture: Panjalu Images /
                                  Barcroft Media
Even though it is dangerous, the children say would rather use it than walk a distance over six kilometers.Picture: Panjalu Images / Barcroft Media
To get to school each day
                                  children living in a mountainous
                                  village in China have to cross a
                                  valley hundreds of metres deep on a
                                  rickety, homemade cable car. Villagers
                                  who live in Decun village in southwest
                                  China's Guizhou Province used to have
                                  to make the journey on foot, which
                                  took five hours, but in 2002 local man
                                  Hui Defang built a simple
                                  cableway.Picture: Quirky China News /
                                  Rex Features
To get to school each day children living in a mountainous village in China have to cross a valley hundreds of metres deep on a rickety, homemade cable car. Villagers who live in Decun village in southwest China's Guizhou Province used to have to make the journey on foot, which took five hours, but in 2002 local man Hui Defang built a simple cableway.Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features
Gulu Village Primary School pupil
                                  Shen Qicai rides a donkey as his his
                                  grandfather accompanies him. Gulu is a
                                  remote Chinese mountain village
                                  located in a national park filled with
                                  canyons, sheer precipices and
                                  overhanging rocks. The village'?s
                                  primary school is probably the most
                                  remote in the world. Lying halfway up
                                  a mountain, it takes five hours to
                                  climb from the base to the
                                  school...Picture: Sipa Press / Rex
                                  Features
Gulu Village Primary School pupil Shen Qicai rides a donkey as his his grandfather accompanies him. Gulu is a remote Chinese mountain village located in a national park filled with canyons, sheer precipices and overhanging rocks. The village'?s primary school is probably the most remote in the world. Lying halfway up a mountain, it takes five hours to climb from the base to the school...Picture: Sipa Press / Rex Features
The children who attend the
                                  school face a dangerous journey to
                                  reach it and must traverse a path that
                                  is only 1ft 4ins wide and which has a
                                  sheer drop on one side.Picture: Sipa
                                  Press / Rex Features
The children who attend the school face a dangerous journey to reach it and must traverse a path that is only 1ft 4ins wide and which has a sheer drop on one side.Picture: Sipa Press / Rex Features
Zhao Jihong and her four-year-old
                                  daughter Zi Yi cross a broken bridge
                                  in the snow to get to school in
                                  Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China.
                                  Shawan village's only connection to
                                  the outside is a wooden bridge.
                                  However, this bridge was damaged by
                                  flooding, leaving it extremely
                                  precarious and leaning dangerously to
                                  one side.Picture: Quirky China News /
                                  Rex Features
Zhao Jihong and her four-year-old daughter Zi Yi cross a broken bridge in the snow to get to school in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China. Shawan village's only connection to the outside is a wooden bridge. However, this bridge was damaged by flooding, leaving it extremely precarious and leaning dangerously to one side.Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features
Children walk to school using a
                                  'bridge' made from stools after
                                  fl00ding in Changzhou city, Jiangsu
                                  Province, ChinaPicture: Quirky China
                                  News / Rex Features
Children walk to school using a 'bridge' made from stools after fl00ding in Changzhou city, Jiangsu Province, ChinaPicture: Quirky China News / Rex Features
A
                                  woman carries a desk while a young
                                  girl carries a chair to school in
                                  Macheng, Hubei province, China, where
                                  primary school pupils have to bring
                                  their own desks and chairsPicture:
                                  Imaginechina / Rex Features
A woman carries a desk while a young girl carries a chair to school in Macheng, Hubei province, China, where primary school pupils have to bring their own desks and chairsPicture: Imaginechina / Rex Features
Five-year-old Lu Siling rides
                                  with her desk on the back of her
                                  mother's motorbike on the first day of
                                  school in Macheng, China. There are
                                  5,000 pupils at the schools in the
                                  town, but only about 2,000 desks. So
                                  more than 3,000 children have to go to
                                  school with desks and chairs, like
                                  their parents' generation. Some
                                  children even use their parents' old
                                  desks.Picture: China Foto Press /
                                  Barcroft Media
Five-year-old Lu Siling rides with her desk on the back of her mother's motorbike on the first day of school in Macheng, China. There are 5,000 pupils at the schools in the town, but only about 2,000 desks. So more than 3,000 children have to go to school with desks and chairs, like their parents' generation. Some children even use their parents' old desks.Picture: China Foto Press / Barcroft Media
Students carry their belongings
                                  as they trek back to school from home
                                  on a rugged mountain path in Dahua Yao
                                  Autonomous County, southwest China's
                                  Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. As
                                  the children live in mountains far
                                  away from the village school, most of
                                  them stay there during the school year
                                  and return home for the summer and
                                  other holidays.Picture:
                                  KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features
Students carry their belongings as they trek back to school from home on a rugged mountain path in Dahua Yao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. As the children live in mountains far away from the village school, most of them stay there during the school year and return home for the summer and other holidays.Picture: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features
Children attend class at the
                                  Dongzhong (literally means in cave)
                                  primary school at a Miao village in
                                  Ziyun county, southwest China's
                                  Guizhou province. The school is built
                                  in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized
                                  natural cave, carved out of a mountain
                                  over thousands of years by wind, water
                                  and seismic shifts.Picture:
                                  REUTERS/China Daily
Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally means in cave) primary school at a Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China's Guizhou province. The school is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved

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