Touching image of a group of students carrying their younger sibling and wading through streams to school
(Baonghean.vn) - Without a bridge, every day dozens of students from the Primary and Kindergarten School in Ca Da village, Bao Thang commune (Ky Son - Nghe An) have to carry each other across the stream to get to class, posing a very high risk of safety during the flood season.
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| Ca Da village (Bao Thang commune - Ky Son) has 2 Khmu residential clusters living along Khe Com river, one of the most difficult villages with 103 households, 490 people, of which poor households account for 66%. People's lives mainly depend on slash-and-burn farming, self-sufficiency. Photo: Dao Tho |
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| Until now, the people have not had a bridge to cross the stream. Therefore, every day to go to school, dozens of students of the Primary and Kindergarten schools located in the village have to wade through the stream to get to school. Photo: Dao Tho |
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| Kindergarten children are carried on her back to cross the stream. Photo: Dao Tho |
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| Holding a lunch box in one hand and rolling up their pants in the other, these children have to go to school by themselves every day to learn to read and write. Photo: Dao Tho |
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| Bare feet and wet clothes after crossing the stream. Photo: Dao Tho |
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| Many children have gotten used to the situation and cross streams to get to school by themselves. Photo: Dao Tho |
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| Village chief Luong Van Danh said: The most annoying thing is that when it rains, students have to have adults take them across the stream to get to school. It is normal to have a week off from school during the rainy season. Photo: Provided by local people. |
| Clip wading through stream to school. |
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| After all the hardships, the Khmu children have a thirst for knowledge. Photo: Dao Tho |
