May 28 2016 : The Times of India
(Delhi)
LEARNING FROM LADDER OF LIFE:
Children wearing bags climb an
800-metrehigh bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff on their way home from
school in Zhaojue county, China. The ladder is the only access to the village
of Atuleer to which the children return every two weeks from the school at
which they board. The 72 families who live there are members of the Yi minority
group and subsist mainly by farming potatoes, walnuts and chili peppers.A news
release on Friday from the Liangshan prefectural government that oversees the
county said a set of stairs would be built as a stop-gap measure
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YOU THOUGHT YOUR LIFE WAS TOUGH?
Children wearing bags climb an
800-metrehigh bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff on their way home from
school in Zhaojue county, China. The ladder is the only access to the village
of Atuleer to which the children return every two weeks from the school at
which they board. The 72 families who live there are members of the Yi minority
group and subsist mainly by farming potatoes, walnuts and chili peppers.A news
release on Friday from the Liangshan prefectural government that oversees the
county said a set of stairs would be built as a stop-gap measure 
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