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On the Way to School
Documentary · 2013
These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a better future and that is why, every day, they must set out on the long and perilous journey that will lead them to knowledge. Jackson and his younger sister from Kenya walk 15 kilometres each way through a savannah populated by wild animals; Carlito rides more than 18 kilometres twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina; Zahira lives in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains who has an exhausting 22 kilometres walk along punishing mountain paths before she reaches her boarding school; Samuel from India sits in a clumsy DIY wheelchair and the 4 kilometres journey is an ordeal each day, as his two younger brothers have to push him all the way to school…
The sides of On the Way to School
- Jackson and his sister walking past elephants in Kenya
- Carlito riding a horse across Argentina
- Samuel pushed in a wheelchair by his brothers in India
On the Way to School is good for you if…
- you want to show children what getting to school means elsewhere.
- you like savannahs, plains and mountain paths of the Atlas.
- you're moved by children who walk for hours to learn.
On the Way to School is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need a plot, and this is four journeys to class.
About: education · courage · childhood
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