On the Way to School
Compared with the dimensions of nature, they are tiny. But they take it on every day to get to school. In Kenya, Jackson (11) walks 15 km (in 2 hours) through the Savannah with his sister Salomé, each with a plastic jug of bottle, a shoulder bag and a stick, meager protection against the group of elephants they risk meeting every day. Every Monday morning, Zahira (12) takes the rocky paths of the High Atlas mountains (Morocco) with two other pupils to walk to their boarding school, which is four hours away. Carlito (11) rides 1 ½ hours on horseback across the plains and hills of Patagonia (Argentina), with his little sister Micaela riding pillion. Finally, in the Gulf of Bengal (India), Samuel (13), who is paraplegic, is pushed to school in his makeshift wheelchair by his two younger brothers – for 4 km (in 1 hours, 15 minutes) over sand that is more hindrance than road...
