Class Acrobatics

A lack of teachers and poor facilities has not deterred children on Arborek Island from studying. They share classrooms and teachers. Pets are even allowed "study."

August 19, 2008

THE school building resembles a picture out of an Indonesian schoolchildren's story from long ago: the walls are made from bamboo, a sago palm thatched roof acts as the school's storeroom and a brick building with five classrooms is used for teaching. There are only 30 school-age children or around 20 percent of the small island's entire population of 147 people. This is State Primary School 147, Arborek village, Raja Ampat regency-the only primary

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