Some children are born rich and some are born poor. This
is an undeniable fact of life in countries across the world, and there is
little humans can do to alter it.
However, this inequality in
social status should never be allowed to morph into an ugly inequality of
educational opportunities, since education is, by far, the most effective way
to help a poor person escape the poverty imposed on him by the circumstances of
his birth.
But as local newswire
Vietnamnet has documented in a series of contrasting photographs below, a wide
disparity exists in schooling between students in urban areas and disadvantaged
regions in Vietnam.
At Ly Thuong Kiet Elementary School in Hanoi: two parents are meticulously attending to their kids.
In a remote area of the nothern province of Lang Son, two students are crossing a river unaided to get to their school, Tinh Bac Elementary School located in Loc Binh District. Hundreds of others like them have to cross the river, be it low or high tide, to go to school every day.
A mother removes the face mask for her daughter, a student at Marie Curie Middle School in Hanoi.
This little first-grader, like many others in the northern province of Quang Ninh, rows her boat to school daily
Like many of his friends at Marie Curie, this student arrives at school in an expensive family car.
n the northern province of Lang Son, a group of students paddle a half-floating, half-sinking bamboo raft to school. No accompanying adult and, even worse, no lifebuoy!
The father seems not to feel secure about his kid even after taking him to the school gate. The little fellow is studying at Ly Thuong Kiet Elementary School in the capital.
These elementary students have to walk through the forests and climb the mountains for 2 hours each day to go to Lung Ca Elementary School in the northern province of Thai Nguyen.
All she has to do to get to school is step out of this luxury car.
In the meantime, this little girl is hopping from one pointed mountain rock to another to get to Lung Ca.
A grandpa is fixing the school bag for his grandson, a student at Marie Curie.
With books in hand and trousers either pulled up or on shoulders, they all have to wade across two springs to get to Dong Van Middle School in the central province of Nghe An.
To these children, schooling is a risky adventure.
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