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...
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.
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
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
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
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. Posted in OnlyCuteAngels Group.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
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. Posted in OnlyCuteAngels Group.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
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
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, Posted in OnlyCuteAngels
Group.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.
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