This picture was our inspiration for Journeys to School, a unique photographic investigation revealing the means by which children around the world access education and their resulting world view.
To bear witness to the powerful stories about how children travel to school, UNESCO, TRANSDEV and SIPA PRESS mobilized 17 photojournalists from all over the globe who worked simultaneously for over a month between November and December 2012.
The result is a fascinating report on the challenges faced by children in their quest for education and the innumerable obstacles they overcome: poverty, lack of resources, political conflict, wars, religious tensions, lack of public transportation, urban security, natural disasters, gender inequality, social exclusion...
But these stories also reveal the striking resilience of the children, their mothers, fathers, teachers, volunteers and NGOs, and a collective determination to build a better future through education.
