Jailed anarchist Nikos Romanos is currently on a hunger strike for the sake of continuing his education, however there are children around the world who risk their lives on a daily basis for the sake of reaching school. they trail along precarious paths carved out on cliffs or pass through tunnels and narrow rickety bridges. Sometimes the trek to school takes hours, but for these children it’s worth it!

It takes the children of Gulu, China, five hours just to go to school.

Elementary school students 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 of Manila…

Everyday, these young kids walk along a precarious path carved by the side of a cliff, as they make their way to class in Bijie, in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

In Sumatra, Indonesia, about 20 strong-willed pupils from Batu Busuk village have to tightrope walk 30 feet above a flowing river to get to their class on time and then walk a further seven miles through the forest to their school in the town of Padang. The kids have been doing the balancing act for the last two years since the suspension bridge collapsed in heavy rain.

In another Indonesian village of Sanghiang Tanjung, children living on the wrong side of of the Ciberang River has to cross a broken suspension bridge to reach the other side where their school is located.

Cycling over an aqueduct that separates Suro Village and Plempungan Village in java, Indonesia. The children use it to save themselves an additional 6km distance to school.

Children from Grade 1-5 swim through the river twice a day to get to school. They strip down and go through almost naked to prevent their clothes and bags from getting wet. The river is 15 meters wide and 20 meters deep.

Bogota, Columbia, kids from the rainforest commute to school via steel cables joining one side of the valley to the other. They are strung 400 meters above the roaring Rio Negro. The young girl has placed her brother in the sack because he is too young at five to make the journey alone. The branch she is holding is the brake. The journey takes 50 seconds.

A Palestinian girl from the Shuafat refugee camp near Jerusalem walks calmly to school through the street strewn with protestors rocks in the direction of the Israeli troops behind her.

At Delhi in India…

Going to school, Sri Lankan style.

Going to school at Myanmar.

Getting to school via the Himalayas.

The children of Zhang-Jiawan climbing their way to school.