Bolivien/La Paz/Yungas: Der Sprung über den Abgrund
Die Strecke durch die bolivianischen Anden führt die Lehrer über 3.000 Höhenmeter abwärts. Die Landschaft verändert sich in kürzester Zeit von schneebedeckten Bergen zu dichtem Dschungel.
Die Schwestern Kendys (li.) und Karen (re.) teilen sich in der kleinen Holzhütte ein Zimmer. Die elfjährige Karen geht im 20 Kilometer entfernten Cuturú zur Schule.
In the Peruvian Uros, children live on floating man-made-islands in the Titicaca Sea and must take boats to school.??(photo credit: Maximus Film GmbH)Facing the most extreme conditions, the children in this series must march, climb or swim their way to school. In doing so, they fear neither brutal cold nor dangerous terrain. They must conquer floods and face wild animals. And yet they have only one goal in sight: a better life. But the path towards this goal is a breathtaking mixture of adventure and danger. These children have the most spectacular and most dangerous way to school in the world: sometimes the most beautiful as well.??(photo credit: Maximus Film GmbH)
In the mountain village Kumpur in the province of Bagmati, we accompany the youngest school kids in the Nepalese mountains, as they walk through mountains on foot, risky hitchhiking across the highway and twice a day crossing the most dangerous river in the area with a ramshackle ropeway.??(photo credit: Maximus Film GmbH)