On the Way to School

On the Way to School (2013)

Genres - Documentary  |   Release Date - Jul 7, 2013  |   Run Time - 77 min.  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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These children live around the world but share the same desire to learn. They understood that only education will improve their life, and that is why every day in the incredible scenery, they embark on a journey that will take high risk to find out.

Jackson, 10, lives in Kenya and traveled fifteen kilometers morning and evening with his sister in the middle of the bush and wildlife ...

Zahira, 11, lives in the rugged mountains of the Atlas Mountains, and it is a day of grueling work that awaits to join his internship with her two friends ...

Samuel, 11 years old, lives in India and every day, the eight kilometers he must accomplish is a test because he did not use his legs. His two younger brothers grow his wheelchair tinkered to school ...

This is a horse that Carlito, 11, crosses the plains of Patagonia on over twenty-five kilometers. Taking his sister with him, he accomplishes this feat twice per day, regardless of the time ...

ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL immerses us in this extraordinary daily alongside those children whose will in the service of a dream the guide on a path that we all borrowed, but never this way.

People often wonder what planet we leave to our children, but what children we leave the planet?

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$7,931,596

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Atlas Mountains, Child, India, Jackson, Kenya, Patagonia, Samuel, To School, Zahira

Alternate Titles

A Caminho da Escola
PT
Auf dem Weg zur Schule
DE, CH
Camí a l'escola
ES
Camino a la escuela
CO, ES
Die gefährlichsten Schulwege der Welt
DE
Okul Yolunda
TR
On the Way to School
US
På väg till skolan
SE
Sur le chemin de l'école
FR, CH
Utam az iskolába
HU
Vado a scuola
IT, CH
Στο δρόμο για το σχολείο
GR
По дороге в школу
RU
上学路上
CN
世界の果ての通学路
JP
築夢上學路
TW