Three Indian college students dwelling in a small city in Maharashtra state needed to undertake a treacherous journey each day to achieve their faculty.
They’d stroll nice distances, after which journey on a flimsy raft made from plastic pipes.
They had been the primary of their households to obtain formal schooling, and their dad and mom wished them to proceed going to high school despite the fact that they feared for his or her kids’s security.
Issues took a constructive flip for the scholars after BBC highlighted their plight in February.
Video by Dipali Jagtap and Sharad Badhe for BBC Marathi.
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