Most Dangerous Ways To School | Philippines, Peru & Romania | Free Documentary

[Music] [Music] w [Music] when you live in the middle of nowhere going to school can be a real exploit yeah and even the city can become a jungle luminita the little Romanian farmer William the Shepherd from The High plateaus of Peru Nessa and Nicole the girls from a shanty town in Manila the road that leads them to school every day is a road riddled with pitfalls in the heart of Europe in the Carpathian Mountains luminit is one of the last pupils to attend the School in inet each morning she travels the mountain Pathways where wild dogs roam more than an hour surrounded by nature which is as Majestic as it is [Music] hostile in Peru the mountains culminate at more than 5,000 m Williams Journey Begins in glacial conditions at this altitude every breath is an effort at 12 years of age William walks for more than 2 and 1/2 hours and changes altitude by 1,000 M with his brothers and sisters in order to reach the only schools in the [Music] valley Nicole and NASA live in a huge open tip where a pestilential smell prevails they are two of the few girls from The Shanty Town who go to school each day their journey across Manila takes 3 hours in the middle of deafening traffic they trade a few trinkets on the way to class it's the weekend William is helping his father Marcelino it's a hard life for Peruvian Shepherds up in the peaks of the Andes the main part of the family's Revenue comes from Raising sheep cows and above all alpacas they have more than 100 of them when they are tending the animals William and his father live here at an altitude of 5,000 M separated from the rest of the [Music] [Music] family for [Music] [Applause] spee [Music] the main family dwelling is further down at 4,300 M it's a traditional perian house with just one [Music] room William has four brothers and a sister Virginia his mother never went to school [Music] Nessa and Nicole are Catholic like 80% of the Filipino population every Sunday they go to [Music] church for 20 years this megalopolis with 20 million inhabitants has thrown out its waist at the edges of the city producing Hills which little by little become covered in vegetation NASA and Nicole live here on one of the tips bad smells and smoke are given off they are nicknamed the Smoky Hills nessa's mother makes a living selling banana fritters on the market Nicole's mother cooks chicken leftovers which she salvages from a fast food place Nicole and yessa aren't sisters their mothers live alone and help each other to [Music] survive more than 3 million children don't go to school in Manila at 8 and 10 years of age Nicole and yessa do all they can to be the best pupils [Music] luminita lives with her parents on a farm in the heart of the Romanian mountains they live thanks to two pigs two cows and a dozen hens in Winter the snow considerably limits movements and lum's family lives a self-sufficient life the nearest town Ulan is less than 20 km away no roads allow it to be accessed by [Music] car the farm is very isolated but even so luminita goes to school every day like all Romanian children her country was the first in Europe to make education obligatory in 1864 for boys and girls alike even in the most isolated parts of the country J [Music] for in Manila Nicole and yessa open the family shop when you live on less than 50 cents a day any boost in revenue is welcome the children of the shanty town meet here they buy sweets or small toys once the homework is finished Nicole and yessa become efficient sales [Music] girls all the items come from the surrounding tips in order to survive the 9 th000 inhabitants of the Smoky Hills have developed a parallel economy by recuperating waste and [Music] reselling [Music] lum's house has no electricity her father uses the local stream to power a small generator he has to regularly inspect it to ensure that everything is [Music] working today the transmission belt is show signs of wear but there's no money to replace it it will have to hold out a bit [Music] longer been [Music] for the school which lum's father is talking about is the same one which his daughter goes to today [Music] a school which allows children scattered across the neighboring mountains to receive a good [Music] education a simple and rustic building constructed more than 60 years ago lum's grandfather also went to this school at the time there were two classes and more than 40 students [Applause] in Peru William and his father go to okoyo at an altitude of 4,000 M they sell alpaka wool at the Sunday market wool which will supply the world's luxury Market wool is the new gold in Peru so everyone wants to bargain William and his father have made a good sale with this money Virginia will buy 20 kilos of Mace an essential part of Peruvian cuisine [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] the weekend is coming to an end tomorrow William Goes to School the water is only 6 degrees but he still cleans his uniform so that it's [Music] immaculate William and his brother Wilbert are the two eldest when it comes to building an extra room to enlarge the house they are the ones to help their father at last they'll have their own [Music] room [Music] spe uhhuh [Music] in her Village in the carpathians luminita can do her homework comfortably thanks to the Ingenuity of her father Darkness won't hold her back luminita is a good student when she goes to Secondary School the family will have to move her parents have made preparations far from their Farm Life in town will be more [Music] difficult The Heavy Rain could stop luminita from going to school tomorrow if it rains too much she will have to make up the Lost day next weekend and [Music] this evening William the Peruvian school boy is sleeping in the upper house at an altitude of 5,000 met so that he can tend the alpacas like luminita the little Romanian when he finishes primary school he too will leave his aim is to go to the secondary school in [Music] aako so even though it's only 5 degrees in the house he must do his [Music] homework for Williams little brothers and sisters back at the lower house with their mother it's also a studious evening [Music] for spee speech spee [Music] [Music] with Manila 6:00 in the morning Nicole and yessa wake up another day begins on the Smoky [Music] Hill thanks to their Willow they are some of the rare girls from The Shanty Town to go to school so even though there's no running water the hygiene of the two girls is [Music] impeccable [Music] at 8 and 10 years of age they get ready on their own their mothers have already left to search the bins in order to gain a few more Filipino [Music] [Music] pesos [Music] to help their mothers pay for school they take with them some trinkets which they sell on the way Manny Nicole's little brother also sets off for [Music] school [Music] an expedition taking nearly 3 hours through the polluted streets of [Music] Manila [Music] at the edge of the shanty town the two girls leave their little brother at the [Music] nursery like every day Nicole and yessa prepare a nice tray of trinkets they must have enough to attract as many customers as possible before setting off through the twists and turns of manila's neighborhoods they bump into ralene NASA's elder [Music] [Music] sister [Music] Nicole and Yesa prefer not to slow down near these boys who are hanging about they reassure themselves with a few [Music] jokes [Music] for luminita water isn't a problem once again the inventive mind of her father combined with the generosity of Romanian nature works [Music] wonders luminita doesn't go to school on her own she's accompanied by her [Music] [Applause] cousins the houses of the two families are the only ones in the area which are still [Music] inhabited yella Maline and niku will make the journey with lum fore foree speech foreign foree fore speech speech foreign spee [Music] [Music] bye Papa for luminita and her cousins a journey of more than an hour left completely to their own devices [Music] begins it snowed during the night winter is coming to Peru William's father is already at [Music] work it's hardly above zero here at 5,000 m and yet William wears only his uniform [Music] fore before leaving William must help his father and his brother Wilbert take out the alpacas time is short his little sister and brothers are waiting for him at the lower house it's William who takes them to school he'll be there in nearly 2 hours if all goes well [Music] [Music] [Music] at an altitude of 4,000 600 M the sun's Rays begin to melt the snow and the ground becomes as slippery as an ice ring William remains very careful even though he knows the path by heart the route which leads to the school requires him to cross several Hills and Valleys IES the Peruvian state has begun building roads but they lengthen the journey time considerably the Shepherds hardly ever use them preferring the old tracks marked out by the Incas more than 500 years ago although they are more direct they are also more [Music] dangerous [Music] to reach their Romanian school luminita and her cousins need to cross agricultural land bordered with old wooden barriers these barriers prevent the animals from straying but when you're only nine like yella they quickly become an insurmountable obstacle fortunately the big cousin is [Music] there meline although younger than his sister already gets by very well [Music] spee foreign spech [Music] [Music] speech foreign [Music] speee look [Music] the [Music] hi sesty gum hi CU I feel [Music] [Music] supero NASA and Nicole have been walking the streets of Manila for more than an hour this morning they're hoping to get rid of all their stock before getting to [Music] school the giant trucks make the going dangerous they also need to be careful of the numerous two and three- wheeled vehicles [Music] processions are an everyday occurrence in Manila they set the pace of Nicole anda's long [Music] journey these festivities attract Street children who don't attend school on the Romanian paths as well there's no lack of distractions to delay the school children's progress they can't resist the pleasure of playing for a while in the [Music] forest foreign fore forign speech fore [Music] speech fore [Music] spee [Music] hey look at [Applause] [Music] this [Music] [Music] this [Music] sing [Music] [Music] over the last few years the number of stray dogs has greatly increased in Romania on their journey luminita and her cousin sometimes pass very close to them fortunately today they keep their [Music] distance while waiting for William to arrive Jennifer the little 9-year-old sister prepares the breakfast their mother is not there she is out taking care of the cows like every morning as for William he continues his journey the snow has given way to immense stretches of andian mountain grass [Music] [Music] speee after 2 hours of walking and running and nearly 700 met of descent William rejoins his sister and his little brothers William has brought to Caso cheese made with fermented milk it's less than 10° in the house and this breakfast warms everyone up they have nothing to prepare for Midday lunch is provided by the [Music] school at this point in their Journey the two little school girls from Manila take a [Music] boat they pay for the Crossing with a pair of earrings for the owner's [Music] wife [Music] the garbage which piles up on the Smoky Hills also clogs the passic river which crosses the city rubbish often blocks the boat's engine it's necessary to get out clean the propeller and push before being able to [Music] continue having left more than two hours ago they stop at the house of NASA's grandmother they don't want to go to school with their money and their jewelry for fear of being robbed [Music] Nicole and yessa continue their Journey with their cousins any means of Transport will do as long as they get there on time even though school doesn't start before [Music] [Music] 11:00 in the Romanian mountains the sunshine has given way to rain [Music] foreign [Music] foree for Williams little brothers start out for school with great [Music] enthusiasm [Music] in Romania the rain has stopped at [Music] [Music] last Melina has had enough of the journey the route through the mountain seems very long when you're only 7 years old Williams little brothers on the other hand are still full of [Music] energy William's father kept this particular house to allow his youngest children to get to school easily [Music] for them the journey hardly takes 20 minutes William however still hasn't arrived his school is further down the valley the rural Exodus has emptied the Romanian Countryside Lumin and and her cousins are the only pupils at the school in [Applause] inet when luminita and Nik leave for secondary school this one will be in danger of closing definitively the only hope is if new children arrive otherwise meline will have no [Music] class William started out nearly 2 and 1 half hours ago he's on the finishing straight a steep road which drops almost 150 [Music] m [Music] [Music] for foreign speech [Music] foree each morning William with the other 80 pupils at the school listen to the national anthem a hym about the freedom of the Peruvian people [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] Miss [Applause] classes take place from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. but since some of the students have to come a long way the hours are fairly flexible [Music] with their uniforms on Nicole and Yesa become just like the other pupils father the Holy Spirit am during the night I thank you for created me keep me from sin and from every evil [Music] [Applause] [Music] every day millions of children throughout the world are ready to face anything to go to school to learn and to [Music] grow Nicole Nessa luminita and William are all driven by a dream that pushes them to overcome their fears on the road which leads them to knowledge a dream which can come true thanks to [Music] school [Music] speech speech [Music] speech 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Length: 51min 48sec (3108 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 18 2024