Some students around the world must take dangerous journeys to reach school each day. In the Philippines, students ride inner tubes across swollen rivers. In Indonesia, students tightrope walk 30 feet above a river. In China, 49 students walk along a cliffside path less than a meter wide for two hours to get to school. Despite risks, these students are determined to get an education.

3. Next time you decide to complain
about going to school, you might
want to think again.

4. RIZAL PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES

5. RIZAL PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES
These elementary school students from the
Philippines ride an inflated tire tube across a
river on their way to reach their school in a
remote village in Rizal roving, which is located
east of the capital Manila. It is an hour walk a
day to get to and from school, and sometimes
they simply cannot make it in to class or back
home because the river is too swollen from heavy
rains.

6. Java, Indonesia

7. SUMATRA,INDONESIA
In Sumatra, Indonesia, about 20 strong-
willed pupils from Batu Busuk village 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. The kids have been doing
the balancing act for the last two years since the
suspension bridge collapsed in heavy rain.

9. In Columbia, kids from a handful of
families living in the rainforest, 40 miles
southeast of the capital Bogota, commute
via steel cables that connect one side of
the valley to the other. This is the only
way to reach school.

10. Take for example these 49 Chinese
schoolchildren from the village of
Genguan. Every single day they are forced
to make a journey that is so perilous and
taxing that it makes getting to school here
in the United States look absurdly simple.
Genguan to Bijle, China

12. • Each day these children walk along a treacherous path carved by the
side of a cliff, as they gradually make their way to class in Bijie, located
in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Banpo Elementary School is
situated halfway up a mountain and the path leading to it winds through
dangerous hillside passes and tunnels carved out of the rock. The
pebble-covered footpath is less than 0.5 meters in width, which forces
the children to walk single file and press themselves into the side of the
mountain if someone wants to pass them. In fact, this really was never
meant to be a path at all; it was made 40 years ago and was supposed
to be an irrigation ditch. By taking this way, the children have to spend
two hours just trying to get to school. Naturally their parents worry
about them, but the only reassurance they get is that the Headmaster
Xu Liangfan travels with the children to school.
• While the story is shocking because it is so very awe inspiring, it isn’t
uncommon for children from poorer regions to face such overwhelming
difficulty on their way to school. It is truly amazing the great lengths
some children will undertake in order to attend school.

13. During clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians in the refugee camp
Shuafat, near Jerusalem, a girl is seen calmly walking towards her school
unconcerned by the violence around her. The street is strewn with rocks
thrown by protesters in the direction of the Israeli troop who can be seen
behind the girl in protective shields.
Ed Darrell, who blogs at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, questioned: What value
does this girl and her family place on education? Is education a civil right? Is
education a basic human right?

14. SOURCES:
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/kids-risking-
their-lives-to-reach-school.html
http://mindblowingfacts.info/real-stories-of-kids-
risking-their-lives-to-reach-school/3/
http://mindblowingfacts.info/real-stories-of-kids-
risking-their-lives-to-reach-school/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0zwFPR5OVY