Most Dangerous Ways To School, PHILIPPINES, Free Documentary
Most Dangerous Ways To School Philippines. The children from Madibago in the southern Philippines have one of the most spectacular and dangerous ways to school in the world. Some walk alone through the jungle for hours, others risk their lives, in order to make it past a steep face of rock and boulders, overgrown with moss and tree roots. On the peninsula Zamboanga del Norte in the southern Philippines, the thinly populated coastal strip gives way to sharply rising mountains. Elevenyearold Aible lives close to the sea, but her school is located in the heart of the mountains. A ride on a motorbike taxi costs only one USDollar, but Aibles family simply doesnt have the money, like most of the families here. So for decades, children from Madibago have been taking the shortcut through the jungle. They call it PamPang: A gigantic wall that the children must climb every single day in the hopes of a better future. In some places its slope is 90 degrees. Many people have fallen here. Some have cr
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