Students around the world often face difficult journeys to get to school each day, traversing rivers, mountains, and other challenging terrain. The document describes stories and photos from numerous countries that illustrate the lengths students go to receive an education, such as walking long distances in harsh weather, crossing rivers on makeshift rafts or narrow planks, climbing steep cliffs, and traveling by boat, vehicle, or on foot through remote areas. In some places, infrastructure has been built to help, like a new bridge in Indonesia, but many children still endure strenuous trips each day for their education.

2. The Long Journey to School

3. High school students cross the Ranteangin river on their way home in Maroko village, in Kolaka Utara, Indonesia July 28, 2017. Antara Foto/Jojon via REUTERS

4. Wang Fuman arrived frozen at school after traveling a mountain road for an hour at -9ºC (yn.people.cn)

5. After the story spread, Indonesia’s largest steel producer, PT Krakatau Steel, built a new bridge, so that the children could cross the river safely. (Image credits: Reuters)

6. A man pushes a tub carrying children as he gets them back home after school at a flooded area in Duchang, Jiangxi Province, China, June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer

7. This is what is meant by school bus in Beldanga, India.Photo by Christoph Otto

8. Students, walking to school, are dwarfed by power towers as they fight their way across an open field, during a winter storm, in Pickering, east of Toronto, Canada. REUTERS/File

9. Opi, 9, leaves for school at 10:30am, and it takes 1.5 hours for
her to walk to school, which is 1.5km away from her house.

10. Schoolchildren ride on a makeshift raft to attend the opening of classes at a remote Casili Elementary
School in Montalban, Rizal northeast of Manila, Philippines June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

11. Saudi children of al-Fefi family walk up the stairs as they make their
way to their schools through Fifa Mountain, in Jazan, south of Saudi
Arabia, December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Al Hwaity

12. 8-year-old Sylvia’s* school is 7km away from her home in ruralTanzania. It’s a distance she walks alone every day. The hour-and-a-half walk takes her through difficult
terrain, but this determined schoolgirl never gives up.

13. Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu . REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta

14. Students stand on the roof of a
wooden boat as haze blankets
the Musi River while they travel
to school in Palembang, on
Indonesia's Sumatra island,
September 10, 2015.
REUTERS/Beawiharta

15. A student from "the cliff village" in Atule'er climbs newly-constructed steel ladders after school to go
home for holidays, in Liangshan Sichuan province, China, November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer

16. Children Traveling On The Roof Of A Wooden Boat In Pangururan, Indonesia. Image credits: Muhammad Buchari

17. School Girls Walking Across A Plank On The Wall Of The 16th Century Galle Fort In Sri Lanka. Image credits: Reuters/Vivek Prakash

18. Xu Liangfan escorts students on a cliff path as they make their
way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in
Guizhou province, China, March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer

19. Students use a wooden boat to cross the Bengawan Solo river to attend school in Bojonegoro, East Java
province, April 7, 2015, in this picture taken by Antara Foto. REUTERS/Aguk Sudarmojo/Antara Foto

20. A woman accompanies some students as they wade in the shallow part of a rocky beach to their school to attend the first day of
classes in Sitio Kinabuksan, Kawag village, Subic, Zambales Province, north of Manila June 1, 2015. REUTERS/Lorgina Minguito

21. A Girl Riding A Bull To School, Myanmar. Image credits: Andrey

22. Pupils Walking On A Tightrope 30 Feet Above A River, Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia. Image credits: Panjalu Images / Barcroft Media

23. Xie Bihua (L), a 47-year-old teacher of a rural primary school located at the mountainous area,
leads on a small dirt road as he walks with his students after school, in Weining Yi, Hui, and
Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou province, China, May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

24. Beldanga, India. Dilwar Mandal.

25. Elementary School Students Crossing A River On Inflated Tire Tubes, Rizal Province, Philippines. Image credits: Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA

26. Elementary School Students Crossing A River On Inflated Tire Tubes, Rizal Province, Philippines. Image credits: Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA

27. Kids Flying 800m On A Steel Cable 400m Above The Rio Negro River, Colombia. Image credits: Christoph Otto

28. Suro Village – Indonesia. Source : The Daily Mail

29. Image credits: Sipa Press

30. Hour Journey Into The Mountains On A 1ft Wide
Path To Probably The Most Remote School In The
World, Gulu, China. Image credits: Sipa Press

31. Students cycle through the haze-blanketed town of Sampit, in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas

32. Students wearing rubber boots use chairs as a make-shift bridge to get to a classroom at Sitio Tapayan elementary school in Taytay, Rizal province, north of Manila.REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

33. A man holds onto a rope as he takes school children on a makeshift raft across a river so that they can
attend school in Paranaque city, south of Manila, Philippines February 26, 2018. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

34. Kids Traveling To A Boarding School Through The Himalayas,
Zanskar, Indian Himalayas. Image credits: Timothy Allen

35. Elementary school boys carry their shoes and bags after crossing a river to go to school in the village of
Nagari Koto Nan Tigo in Indonesia's West Sumatra province. REUTERS/Stringer

36. Students travel in a vehicle after attending school at Ibsheway el-Malaq village in
Gharbia governorate, northeast of Cairo, March 12, 2012. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

37. Kashmiri children cross a damaged footbridge built over a stream, on their way back home from school in Srinagar. REUTERS/Danish Ismail

38. Elementary school girls cross a river to go to school in the village of Nagari Koto Nan Tigo in Indonesia's West Sumatra province. REUTERS/Stringer

39. Pili - China To get to school (and stay in boarding school), nearly 80 schoolchildren make a 200km trip through the Xinjiang Mountains. Source : The Telegraph

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