In Nepal, a large agricultural country, there lives a group of children living in crumbling houses, living a daily life of hunger, thirst and helplessness.
Even if life is full of tribulations, it cannot indelible their thirst for knowledge.
Between the ravines of the ridge there is a steel cable, which is dangerously dense, but the only bridge between the children and knowledge, through which the children must pass to reach the school on the other side.
Micro character stories, determined to inspire the most motivated and responsible youth. This issue of Ziya Children's Fun Micro Perspective, we will take you to understand the story of children in this small mountain village.
In Nepal, where 80 percent of the population is rural, only two-thirds of the children have access to school, leaving the rest lying on the windows of their homes and watching the others go to school.
The village of Kunpu is hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, which are desolate and barren and ideologically backward.
Our protagonist Ajit grew up in such an environment, although he was still in elementary school, but the young Ajit took on the burden of housework early on.
Like other children in the village, he got up at six in the morning to help his parents with their skills, and he could only go to school after completing two hours of farm work.
Tough way to school
Ajit knows that he wants to step into the door of the school, and every step in front of him is particularly difficult, which makes him cherish his opportunity to study even more.
Although the poor life made Ajit's daily life a little difficult, at the same time he was lucky.
The family attended school with two children, Ajit and her sister Sapana, who were only four years old, to pick up another little girl from the village, Kabita, who was going to school.
Three small friends walk together, laugh and play on weekdays, and never feel lonely.
Their parents are industrious and simple, running between the vegetable field and the market every day, although it is hard, but they can make this small home warm and sweet.
The parents have tasted the pain of no culture, and they understand more about how important knowledge is for a person's life, and by saving daily expenses, the couple does their best to provide for the children to read.
Every morning, the parents who send their children to the door are worried about their children's safety, but no one has time to escort them across the river every day, and they have to do farm work to ensure the family's livelihood
In fact, this section of the school journey is notoriously arduous, and many children have been injured while going to school.
The road from the village to the school has a large ravine, no bridge in the middle, and a rushing river below, and the children can only cross the river with a simple roller skating device and a rope.
In the past, some villagers have tried to drive boats across the river, but the river between the two banks is too turbulent, directly blowing the boat off the shore, and some will have different degrees of abrasions.
The medical and health conditions here are extremely poor, and the villagers have not been vaccinated against tetanus, and many people have almost died.
In order to cross the river, the villagers jointly built a steel cable, a total of three, but now only two are left, the others are corroded and damaged due to external factors, and the only steel cable that remains today is also "in danger".
Ajit's father once nearly lost his life on a steel cable, which made Ajit extra careful every time he crossed the river.
In the face of such a turbulent river in front of you, the gullies on the steel cables have become more and more, and what has not changed is the original intention of the children to read.
There were more than a dozen children attending school together, and they agreed to assemble on the shore at a time, but the weighing of the iron box was limited, and the children needed to cross the river in batches.
Fortunately, the children are docile and well-behaved, never quarrel over who crosses the river first, everyone is united, and even the most dangerous rocks can be overcome.
There is an unwritten rule for children to cross the river, in which the older children push the iron box containing the younger children to the other side of the river.
Due to the limited living conditions, children wear slippers when they go out, and it is necessary to know that the anti-slip performance of slippers is not good, which also increases the risk of children crossing the river.
One of them was particularly brave, named Robida, who once fell into the river when he crossed the river.
The ferocious river looked like it was about to engulf the emaciated child, but he riveted his strength and overcame the oncoming torrential current and swam safely to the shore.
Ajit admired Robida's courage, but he also became more afraid of it, he had not been able to get water since he was a child, and once he fell, the consequences were unimaginable.
Every time he crossed the river, Ajit told himself to try not to pay attention to the cliff under him, as long as he kept his eyes level, he would not be so afraid.
In fact, as long as you can walk on the tightrope, compared to children of the same age, it is already a very brave thing.
Hiking through hundreds of meters of steel cables requires extremely strong psychological construction, and an adult still needs to go through special training to complete this thing, let alone a school-age child.
The children in The Village of Kunpu are amazing
Most of the children at Ajit's school come from local towns and take only ten minutes to get to the school.
But the difference between Ajit and his own murakami children takes 2 hours to reach school is evident.
Children in Kunpu Village are often isolated due to their unsatisfactory grades.
This is not because children do not study hard, but they spend too much time on the road and housework every day, leaving very little time for learning.
Coupled with the fact that there is no adult tutoring, it is even more difficult to improve the grades by relying on the children's own strength.
At the end of the day, Ajit and his companions would start thinking about the way home.
For them, the greatest happiness is that they can just catch a ride on the side of the road, and when they reach the shore, the hollow iron box is parked on the shore close to the school.
You won't be shaky when you walk the tightrope, and you can finally go home and drink a cup of hot tea, and the day is over safely.
You know, if any of these links go wrong, Ajit and other friends need to take more risks.
This distance of only 100 meters often takes children 15 minutes, and they are under too much pressure when they should enjoy the care of adults.
A pair of small, tender hands are covered with wounds, and it takes twice as long every day to go up and down the mountain than the average child.
The teacher at Ajit's school is a well-informed woman who feels sorry for these poor children, but she also knows the helplessness of all this.
She hoped that the government would allocate funds to build the bridge, but each time she was prevaricated by various reasons, and the teachers in the school could only pray that the heavens would take care of this group of poor children and be safe.
The children also gave their way to school a cute name – "Dance on a Tightrope".
Ajit said he had a dream of becoming a pilot so he could cross any gully or canyon, but now he was willing to give up that dream for another bridge.
The children of Kunpu Village repeat this life day after day, but life is never to make people submit, but to teach people to grow.
Even if they are in danger, they are also striving for the opportunity to study, and now in a peaceful environment, we should cherish everything we have, strive to be ourselves, and live out what we want.
Don't think about what tomorrow will look like? What does the future look like? As long as we grasp the moment, take it seriously, and strive for the dream, there will soon be an answer.
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