Santiago Munoz takes the title as the kid who travels the farthest to school each day — but the struggles faced by these other young scholars from around the world are nothing to sneeze at.
A Brazilian boy named Fabricio rides to class on a donkey in the poor, drought-stricken Sertão region of the South American country. It takes him about an hour and 15 minutes, on average.
Little Wai Wai Htun travels 40 minutes to get to school in a makeshift rickshaw in Mae Sot, a refugee-filled area of Thailand with a booming illicit drug trade.
A 6-year-old Kenyan girl, Elizabeth Atenio, walks two hours a day from one of the worst slums on the African continent to the Kibera School for Girls.
And Mathilde, a French student who lives on the island of Hoedic, travels about 45 minutes by boat to class from her home off the coast of Brittany, in the northwestern region of the country.