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In many civilized countries, children are delivered to school by special transport, so the remoteness of the educational institution from home is not a problem. In large cities, children are most often themselves get to school, and the only inconvenience for the child in this The event becomes crowded public transport. However things are different for many rural children, say China.
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For example, in the Chinese province of Sichuan there is a small village Gulu, whose children have to overcome a huge distance to get to school. To make it any easier test for children, adults made their own way through the tunnel thereby shortening the path. However, the trail itself in this case stretches over the precipice and in some places does not exceed sixty centimeters. Village boys and girls have to to overcome this dangerous path once a week, since the school works on the principle of a boarding school, that is, with the provision of overnight stays and providing food.
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No less difficult road to school can be called for children Zhang Haiwan Village. And although in this case there are no large distances, but boys and girls have to rise daily and go down the rickety stairs to a sheer cliff height of seventy meters, and without any insurance. Amazing but Chinese children carry this out with some kind of fantastic ease. Not a fear of heights is generally inherent in all Chinese, it is possible judge at least with what circus virtuosity and fearlessness they build and repair mountain hiking trails.
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Eighty children of the third Chinese village of Pili Province Xingyang generally cover a distance of two hundred kilometers to to get to school. Moreover, this path is also not easy, since passes through mountains with suspension bridges, crosses mountain rivers that children have to wade in summer and on ice in the winter. Since such a journey takes two days one way, then children go to school for several months, coming off for a long time from my parents.
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By the way, very difficult and dangerous roads to school are not only in China, but also in Colombia, the Philippines, the Indian Himalayas and many African republics. For example, in the Serengeti (see photo below) children go to school twenty kilometers on a level terrain. Compared to the extent and danger of Chinese the difficulty of this road seems to be small, but this path goes along a valley inhabited by lions. For this reason, two or three children die annually. And we still think that it’s hard for our children to get to schools …
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