How Children Get To School Around the World! - Worst Routes — Transcript

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1. 0:00Imagine having to scale the Burj Khalifa,  or walk for 5 days in subzero temperatures,
2. 0:05or brave an 800m long zipline over 200m  in the air, just to get to school! Well,
3. 0:11these kids do just that, and more! Here  are the worst school routes IN THE WORLD!
4. 0:201. Shree Adarsha School, Kanpur, Nepal. Every day the children in the village of
5. 0:26Kanpur join together to go down to the school in  the city. An hour and a half before classes start,
6. 0:31the Kanpur children set off for  school. They must walk down the
7. 0:35mountain to the treacherous Trishuli river. Here, because there is no bridge, they must
8. 0:39cross using a contraption called "The Tuin" a  metal basket that hangs from two steel cables.
9. 0:45Sometimes, they walk down the mountain to find  that "the Tuin" is on the other side and the
10. 0:50children must wait until an adult comes and  can bring it back to them, if no adults come,
11. 0:55they will miss school and have to walk  the hour trek back home for nothing.
12. 0:59Even if they are lucky enough to cross the  river without incident, then they still have
13. 1:02to hitch a ride on the main highway into town. At the end of the school day they must repeat the
14. 1:072-hour trip just to get back home, hopefully  before night fall and with enough time to do
15. 1:12their homework before going to bed, and  then tomorrow, they'll do it all again.
16. 1:182. Pamoseang Village, Indonesia. Unlike the children in Nepal, in
17. 1:24the remote village of Pamoseang in west Sulawesi,  the children actually have a fairly decent bridge
18. 1:30so they can cross the river and get to school,  however, in this country flooding often occurs
19. 1:35and damages the wooden slats on the bridge when  this happens, and until it can be repaired,
20. 1:39children must brave the rapid river flow in order  to get to school, only the older children are
21. 1:45strong enough to cross the river this way, younger  children and girls must cross the 150ft (45m)
22. 1:50river by shimmying across the iron cables that  support the bridge. These iron cables are rusty,
23. 1:56frayed, and slippery when wet, one mistake and a  child will fall 30ft (9m) into the rapids below.
24. 2:043. Atuleer Village, Sichuan, China. Children aged 6 to 15 from the remote village
25. 2:12of Atuleer go to boarding school in the county  of Zhaojue. The only way to leave or to enter
26. 2:18their village is via 17 different bamboo ladders  with an accumulative height of 2,625ft (800m).
27. 2:26Every two weeks the children return from  boarding school with their laden backpacks
28. 2:29and must scale the sheer rock face to reach the  remote village where 72 families reside. To put it
29. 2:36into perspective, the Burj Khalifa, the tallest  building in the world, is 2,625ft tall (800m),
30. 2:42imagine your home was at the top and every two  weeks having to climb up there on a bamboo ladder.
31. 2:514. Lingshed Village, Indian Himalayas. Children from this village, during 6 months of
32. 2:57the year can get to their boarding school in Leh  easily by road, but, during the 6 winter months,
33. 3:03heavy snowfall blocks access by road and so the  children are forced to undergo something known as
34. 3:08the Chadar Trek. The children must walk 14 miles  (23km) in subzero temperatures up the semifrozen
35. 3:15Zanskar river, older children form groups and the  younger children are accompanied by their fathers,
36. 3:20the terrain is slippery and treacherous,  pieces of ice break off underfoot and
37. 3:24a fall into the icy river would almost  certainly mean death. Depending on the
38. 3:28amount of snowfall the children can take  up to 5 days to complete the journey.
39. 3:365. Acacias, Columbia. Children who live in the Acacia Hills
40. 3:41in Columbia have two ways to get to school every  day, they can either undergo a 5-hour hike down a
41. 3:47mountain, cross the river and climb up another  mountain or they can take the quicker route.
42. 3:51The quicker route is a 2,625ft (800m) zipline  suspended 750ft (230m) above the ground,
43. 3:58there are a total of 12 ziplines that connect  villagers on one side of the valley to the other.
44. 4:03Adults and older children ride the zipline using  a v-shaped piece of wood as a handbrake and can
45. 4:09reach speeds of up to 50mph (80km/h) on their  way down, younger children are unable to use
46. 4:14the brake on their own and so they are put  into sacks and carried over by their elders.
47. 4:20Which route did you think was  the hardest? Comment Below!
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