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On The Way To School
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that onIy education wiII aIlow them a better future, and that is why every day, they must set out on the Iong and periIous journey that will Iead them to knowledge. Jackson, 11, lives in Kenya. Twice a day he and his younger sister waIk 15 kilometers through a savannah popuIated by wild animals. CarIito, 11, rides more than 18 kilometers twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina, regardIess of the weather. Zahira, 12, lives 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 lndia. The four kiIometers he has to travel each day are an ordeaI, as he doesn t have the use of his legs. His two younger brothers have to push him alI the way to school in a makeshift wheelchair. ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL immerses us in the extraordinary routines of these children, whose sheer wiIl to accomplish their dream leads them onto a path we have alI waIked but never Iike this. |
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