Parental love, Parents from Tibetan herding community send their children off to a rural boarding school in Tibet

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Parental love, Parents from Tibetan herding community send their children off to a rural boarding school in Tibet​

Parental love, Parents from Tibetan herding community send their children off to a rural boarding primary school in Tibet

Food, accommodation, everything is for free in the school, it's a vast sparely populated region in Lhoka in rural Tibet , because of the sheer size of this pasture region, many students can only go back to see their parents once a week, it's the first day of a new school term, parents take their children to the school and spend some time with the children before going back.

Boarding schools are common all over China, but for the ones in Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia, the west calls it forced seperation of the children from their parents by the Chinese government.

 

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One thing which is enviable to schools in the cities is there's lots of empty space in rural Tibet, the rural schools in Tibet don't have to worry about not having enough space, so rural schools in Tibet look bigger than schools in the cities.

 

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Shared bikes' tires used to make basketball courts for village schools in Tibet​

China has tens of millions of broken shared bikes every year, the tires of some of them are used to make basketball courts for village primary schools in rural Tibet. Students from Relamu villge primary school at altitude of 4,300 meters watched how engineers turned shared bike tires into beautiful basketball courts for them. 西藏日喀则定日县热拉木村小学

Tons of Shared bikes