Member-only story
My father was a firm believer in education. He himself might have ended up a small businessman, but he aspired to a different life — one that required him to get an education.
An immigrant, he was fortunate enough to attend college and also obtain a PhD in the USA.
He inculcated the importance of education in his offspring. We benefited from his values and passed them on to our progency.
I recently encountered a YouTube video series which caught my interest.
The series is entitled: “The Most Dangerous Ways to School,” and consists of approximately 48-minute documentaries of what children endure in various countries in order to attend school.
They have garnered millions of views.
Lives of various students from each country are presented. Sometimes their lives intersect.
A few of these children live with grandparents because of poverty. Their parents simply cannot afford to provide a home for them.
The illiteracy rate varies from country to country. These students, sometimes against great odds, are trying to be among the literate. They are determined to get an education.
Here is a link to what transpires (to both students and teachers, the latter traveling one of the most dangerous roads in the world to get to school) in one school in Bolivia:
