Three Indian college students residing in a small city in Maharashtra state needed to undertake a treacherous journey on daily basis to succeed in their college.
They’d stroll nice distances, after which journey on a flimsy raft product of 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 highschool regardless 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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