Classes 3A & 3B: Getting to school may be easy for us, but perilous for others!
While most students in classes 3A and 3B have a comfortable, and relatively short journey, to and from school each day, generally by car, or perhaps on foot, bicycle or bus; some children in other parts of the world such as India, China, Colombia, South Africa, and Indonesia, risk their lives daily in pursuit of an education – climbing up or down a mountain using unfixed wooden ladders; zip-lining across a river or ravine at high altitude; trekking through ice; walking kilometres across the desert in searing heat where wild animals roam; while others use alternative forms of transport such as homemade rafts, canoes, tyres, camels and bullock-drawn carts. So next time, you find yourself complaining about the 5 – 15 minute travel time to school, think instead of these brave children and the danger they must continually face on their own, without any adults to watch over them.
