A bunch of children in China are facing dangerous journeys between their homes and school because their village is so cut aloof from the outside world.
Heart-breaking pictures emerged showing these pupils, the youngest who are aged just six, must climb unsecured vine ladders on the side of a steep rock face to go home from academic.
The schoolchildren live in a so-called ‘cliff village’, which is found on the top of a 2,624-foot-tall peak in south-west China, and the school is at the foot of the mountain, reports Huanqiu affiliated with the People’s Daily Within the.
The set of pictures were taken on May 14 as 15 children spend two hours climbing 17 cliff ladders at the county of Zhaojue County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
These pupils, who aged between six and 15, were seen carrying heavy bags and supervised by three new parents.
Their homes at the Atule’er village boasts an altitude of 4,600 feet.
The village is quite remote that only 72 families live there, most of whom make a living by growing chillies.
Once the they come up with the Le’er Primary School, the children stay there for a couple weeks before which means that treacherous journey back to the mountain to visit their loved ones.
Every time they come down or mechanism the mountain, their parents take it in turns to pick them up.
For the parents who are used to the journey, it requires them 60 minutes to follow the cliff and an hour or and one half to go up.
However for your young pupils, they need around 120 minutes to scale the cliffs with obvious of dangerous ladders.
30-year-old Chen Guji is easily the most the parents helped pick up the children on day time when reporters took images.
Chen told the reporter he to be able to get up at 6am that morning in order to descend the peak to pick up his four daughter and something son, and also other little kids.
His son, named Chen Muhei, is six years old and will be the youngest of his five children.
No comments:
Post a Comment