The 28km journey of walking through the forest is a difficult journey to school for the children of Lang Sang. Accompanying them on this arduous journey are the dedicated teachers who stay in the village to spread knowledge.
Sang Village - A particularly difficult village located deep in the core of the Ta Xua mountain forest (Bac Yen, Son La), with no electricity, no phone signal, everything is almost isolated from the outside, but there are footsteps still going to school every day carrying many dreams and ambitions for a brighter future.
At 10:30 am on Saturday, the bell of Hang Dong Primary and Secondary School rang out, which was also the time when Sang Village students quickly packed up and returned home after a week of boarding school.
Walking quickly with the children in the hot noon sun and then what appeared before my eyes made anyone who saw it feel terrified, the high, deep, vertical roads... covered by dense forests, at first glance like a maze with no way out.
Following the old forest with towering trees, on both sides of the road were rocky mountains, on the other side was a bottomless abyss, the road was only wide enough for 1 person and 1 motorbike to pass through... I understood somewhat the hardships that the people of Lang Sang had to go through, especially the hardships of the children here when looking for letters.
28km, 5.5 hours with dangerous forest and mountain roads are the challenges that children must overcome in their journey to seek knowledge to escape poverty.
