‘Donkey school bus’ takes Palestinian children to their school in Gaza Strip
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE - MARCH 6: Some schools especially in urban areas in many countries hire buses to take children to school. But in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, a donkey cart has become a school bus for young children.Each morning, Loay Abu Sahloul whistles to summon the kids, most of them preschoolers, from their homes, and take them to their schools by his donkey cart, passing through the narrow streets of the Israeli-blockaded city.The 33-year-old donkey driver charges five shekels ($1.3) per month for each child who is too young to walk to school and too poor to afford a school bus in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip.Abu Sahloul told Anadolu that the residents of the refugee camp cannot afford the school buses which cost at least 40 shekels a month.The donkey cart transports 20 kids to their school, he added.The area of the Gaza Strip is 378 square kilometers and is inhabited by approximately 2.2 million people. It is considered one of the most densely populated places on earth.The strip has been reeling under a years-long Israeli blockade since 2007, badly affecting livelihood in the seaside territory.
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