Gulu village school in China requires students have nerves of steel!
| The world’s remotest school ANANOVA |
Children in a remote part of China
face a hazardous walk to school –
because it is halfway up a sheer cliff.
The school in Gulu village,
Sichuan province, lies halfway up
a mountain and climbing up from
the base takes five hours.
The elementary school has only
one teacher who has been there
for 26 years, reports the
West China City Daily.
Villagers say going to school is
very dangerous for the children,
since the path is only 1ft 4ins wide
at the narrowest point and has a
sheer drop on one side.
Walking along the narrow, zigzagging
path also makes the children feel dizzy,
they say.
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The school has five concrete buildings
and a playground with a basketball
hoop made of two wooden poles
and a broken blackboard.
However, the children are allowed
to only pat the balls,
as if they throw them and they go over
the edge of the cliff,
it would take half a day to retrieve them.
Shen Qijun, 45, the teacher,
has threatened to quit several times,
but each time the villagers plead with
him to stay as there would be nobody
else to teach their children.
Shen teaches Chinese and Math to
the students, but says only two
students in 26 years have gone on
to university because of the isolation.
A volunteer who has been teaching
there for three months said:
“The students work very hard,
but they have never seen computers,
cars or even flushing toilets.”
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Amazing story and pictures!
Jeff - November 9, 2008 at 4:19 pm |
i like to see how they go to school and study there…
Shuvo
shuvo - November 11, 2008 at 9:56 am |
I would love to see close up pictures. Is there somewhere I can go to do that? Thanks.
Lydia Conca - June 28, 2009 at 7:01 pm |
God bless them…
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Andrea Dobinsky - March 6, 2009 at 8:13 am |
That is not my photo.
I got it from ANANOVA.com.
Thank you for reading 22MOON.com !
rashmanly - March 6, 2009 at 10:46 am |
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I would love
to see more photos of
the school myself Lydia,
I looked on the Internet
without success.
Thank You and everyone
for reading 22moon!
If I find more photos,
I’ll run them for sure.
Rash
rashmanly - June 29, 2009 at 3:12 am |
I am looking for just such a village
in Sichuan for a development project.
Would it be possible for you to
send me the exact location of Gulu village?
In turn I will keep you informed
of my indentions and ongoings.
Michael
Michael Mais - October 23, 2010 at 11:30 am |
if i had any
information I would
send it to you.
If any readers have information
that will help Michael please
post it and I
ll make sure
he gets it.
Rash
rashmanly - October 23, 2010 at 11:52 pm |
Please watch,NHK WORLD on 02-12-2011 China WOW program.Then you can see the full story.
samare - December 2, 2011 at 6:25 am |
i would like some one to tell me how to get to this place, for 0ne reason only, these children+their teacher inspire me…
peter - January 18, 2017 at 1:58 am |