{"id":172569,"date":"2016-01-09T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/children-in-central-azerbaijan-brave-4km-walk-to-reach-school\/"},"modified":"2016-01-09T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T11:02:42","slug":"children-in-central-azerbaijan-brave-4km-walk-to-reach-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/children-in-central-azerbaijan-brave-4km-walk-to-reach-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in central Azerbaijan brave 4km walk to reach school"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n    <iframe\ttitle=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mBkRdYuVWj4\"\tframeborder=\"0\"\tallow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    4km walk to school<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Every day, they rise at dawn to make an arduous trip to school. Children in the remote villages of Hajiqadirli and Sarvan in Agsu district, central Azerbaijan, are used to walking 4 kilometers on foot every single day to fulfill their quest for education. In a video footage sent by Meydan TV readers, local residents recount how their children brave harsh weather conditions, stray dogs and unpaved roads to make it to school on time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Parents are concerned that their children may get attacked by stray dogs or hit by a car. One resident said that his nephew had recently been hit by a car on his way to school and had yet to recover. The 4km walk lands children in a wood-heated classroom \u2013 overcrowded but underfunded. Resources are so scarce in this far-off village that pupils from four grades have to take classes in one room, regardless of different curricula.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    Scant services, plentiful presidential portraits<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There is no heating system, and without a secure roof, raindrops fall on class attendees. To minimize pupils\u2019 presence in freezing rooms, teachers rush through classes and hold them all in one shift.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhat can they learn this way?\u201d local resident Rahman Islamov wonders.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Schools lack water or telephone lines. Pupils never even heard the word \u201cinternet,\u201d villagers say.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cInternet? Our kids only heard this word on TV,\u201d another local said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, what these schools have in abundance are presidential portraits. They ubiquitously hang on the walls of the rooms \u2013 of both the current president and his father \u2013 as a stark reminder of the country\u2019s autocratic history and political climate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe hope one day these children will have a much warmer room to study in,\u201d a local resident said in the video.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    \u201cThis is our village\u201d<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The school where the footage took place is only a microcosm of the overall situation in this district. It is not only children that suffer. Adults complain about scant job opportunities, despite a reportedly lucrative bridge construction project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere\u2019s a bridge currently under construction, but residents were denied jobs in this construction project,\u201d one respondent said. \u201cWe went there multiple times, and they keep saying that there are no jobs available. \u2018We have our company that supplies us with workers.\u2019\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe will do it ourselves. We told them that this is our village but we don\u2019t have jobs. We could work in the construction but instead we\u2019re unemployed. However, they will not let us do it.\u201d\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, pupils in Agsu district rise at dawn to make an arduous trip to school. Schools have no water, telephones or heat. 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