艱辛的上學路
Tough way to school
資料提供者:Sidddney Chen
Children walk along a narrow mountain road
to get to school in Bijie, southwest
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
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
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Each day 20 determined pupils have to cross the local river like circus performers after the suspension bridge collapsed in heavy rain.
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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
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The wooden ladders on the approach to the school have been replaced with a metal staircase
that makes the ascent much easier and safer.
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A school child crosses ane
aqueduct that separates
even though it wasn't made for people to walk on.
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Even though it is dangerous, the children say would rather use it than walk a distance over six kilometers.
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To get to school each day children living
in a mountainous village in
hundreds of meters deep on a rickety, homemade cable car. Villagers who live in Decun village
in southwest
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sheer precipices and overhanging rocks. Posted in gals-group 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.
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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.
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Zhao Jihong and
her four-year-old daughter Zi Yi cross a broken
bridge in the snow to get to school in
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Children walk to school using a 'bridge'
made from stools after fl00ding in
A woman carries a desk while a young girl
carries a chair to school in
Five-year-old Lu Siling
rides with her desk on the back of her mother's motorbike on the first day of
school in
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Students carry their belongings as they
trek back to school from home on a rugged mountain path in
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Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally means in cave) primary school at a Miao village
in Ziyun county, southwest