Schooling - not to be taken for granted.

1. If you know where you are going , you
will make up for what is missing

5. Founder of a free school for slum children
Rajesh and Laxmi ,write on black boards,
painted on a building wall, at a free school
run under a metro bridge in New Delhi,
India. At least 30 children living in the
nearby slums have been receiving free
education from this school for the last
three years.

7. A boy on his way to school rides a bicycle
across planks on an aqueduct that separates
Plempungan Village and Suro Village in central
Java, Indonesia, on Nov. 26. As rickety as it
looks, residents prefer to use the old aqueduct
as a shortcut. The alternative route requires
walking 3.5 miles.

9. SEE VIDEO
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbcnews.com/46070191#46070191

13. They don't have a bus, or even a bridge. Filipino
elementary school students have to use an
inflated tire tube to cross a river on their way to
school in a remote village in Rizal province, east
of the capital Manila. The students have to walk
for at least an hour a day to get to and from
school, and are sometimes forced to skip classes
or take shelter at relatives' homes if the river is
swollen due to heavy rains. The community has
been petitioning the local government to put up a
suspension bridge in order to make the crossing
easier, faster and safer.

14. COMMENTS
Lanikai Ron
These kids don't see this as scary or unusual.
This is what they know. This is always how it has
been for them. In many ways, these children
already have a leg up on our lucky kids here at
home. They know what it's like to do without
and proceed to do what they must to get to
school. They are not sitting on the bank waiting
for government to make it easy for them.

15. Troy1101
Wish I could have gone tubing to school
everyday.
ASmithy
I love this picture it needs to be on
billboards everywhere. people seem to
forget there is always more than one way to
get to the other side