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If you think your child’s path to school is extremely dangerous due to the large number of busy roads that he have to go, then you should find out in what conditions children from a remote village in the PRC reach the place of study, and stop worrying about your offspring. Little Chinese climb hundreds of meters over a sheer cliff and this is probably the most dangerous way to school on the planet.
Atuleer is a small poor settlement in Sichuan Province in the south of central China. In the present moment here live seventy-two families. The village is located in deep valley, and in order to get to the nearest city, it is necessary to overcome eight hundred meters along vertical rocks. IN the city has a shop, school, hospital and other important places, therefore, the inhabitants of Atuleer have to spend one and a half to two each time hours both on an incredibly dangerous climb, and on an equally risky descent.
The path consists of seventeen flimsy stairs constructed of sticks and lianas. Every weekday, at least twenty children twice overcome the most difficult route. Schoolchildren are usually accompany three experienced adults. No casualties here, unfortunately does not cost. Only last year, they fell off a cliff, breaking to death, eight people, one of whom was a child. Not less, creepy stairs continue to be used, since other the villagers have no way to reach civilization.
Officials do not want to build a normal road to school
Some students prefer to stay at school for the whole time. school week and returning home only on the weekend, however, and here, of course, have their drawbacks. Educational staff institutions are not able to take care of children around the clock, therefore to the young Chinese, despite all the danger of their adventures, recommend going to parents daily.
A photo from open sources
In total, about four hundred people live in Atuleer. Metropolitan photographer Chen Jie managed to draw attention to this problem world community. The Beijinger, along with the students did the rocks the way back and forth, getting a few shots that quickly scattered across the World Wide Web. According to the photojournalist, the students looked scared and extremely tense. “This is very dangerous way. Children constantly risk their lives to receive education, “said Chen Jie.
Thanks to the resonance caused by the shocking shots, the Chinese authorities had to comment on the situation. True, their reaction turned out to be very dry and indifferent. Officials said that a reliable staircase will cost the state budget nine million dollars, and this is pretty impractical, because in the village lives too few people.
Moreover, in China and even in the Sichuan province itself, such villages cut off from civilization and having such terrible a lot of roads. Therefore, the arrangement of all these paths, stairs, the government simply does not have mountain crossings and, most likely, there will never be money.
It’s strange, and where does China find the money to build its numerous ghost towns in which no one lives? ..
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