Photographs: Beawiharta/Reuters
We present some stunning images of students across the world attending school despite difficult circumstances and situations.
Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia.
Flooding from the Ciberang river broke a pillar last year supporting the suspension bridge, which was built in 2001. Sofiah, a student crossing the bridge, says she will need to walk for an extra 30 minutes if she were to take a detour through another bridge.
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Hazir Reka/Reuters
A student crosses the frozen Batllava Lake in Kosovo on his way to school. Students at the village of Orllan started their first few days of school after disruption due to bad weather.
They had to cross the frozen artificial lake of Batllava, which supplies water to the capital Pristina, to reach their school on the other side.
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Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province of China.
Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. Located halfway up a mountain, the school has 68 students of which about 20 live in the nearby Gengguan village.
Students from Gengguan have to edge their way along the narrow cliff path to go to class everyday, alongside Xu who would escort them. The path, which was carved from cliffs over 40 years ago, is the only route between Gengguan village and the school, according to local media.
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
Students wearing rubber boots use chairs as a make-shift bridge to get to a classroom at Sitio Tapayan elementary school in Taytay, Rizal province, Philippines. Teachers claimed that the school grounds, built on a former garbage dump site, had no drainage and were constantly inundated with water.
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Danish Ismail/Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Muzaffar Salman/Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Earthquake survivors attend a class in an open-air school in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan in November 25, 2005.
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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IN PHOTOS: Getting to school at ALL COSTS
Photographs: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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Photographs: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
Students, walking to school, are dwarfed by power towers as they fight their way across an open field, during a winter storm, in Pickering east of Toronto, Canada, on December 12, 2000.
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