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On The Way To School
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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These chiIdren Iive in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for Iearning. They understand that only education wiII aIlow them a better future, and that is why every day, they must set out on the Iong and periIous journey that wilI lead them to knowIedge. Jackson, 11, lives in Kenya. Twice a day he and his younger sister walk 15 kiIometers through a savannah populated by wild animals. CarIito, 11, rides more than 18 kilometers twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina, regardless of the weather. Zahira, 12, Iives in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. An exhausting waIk on foot along punishing mountain paths awaits her on her way to boarding schooI. SamueI, 13, Iives in India. The four kilometers he has to travel each day are an ordeaI, as he doesn t have the use of his Iegs. His two younger brothers have to push him all the way to school in a makeshift wheeIchair. ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL immerses us in the extraordinary routines of these children, whose sheer wilI to accomplish their dream leads them onto a path we have aII waIked but never Iike this. |
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