Some of the children from a small village of Manicesti, in Arges County, must travel 15 kilometers in order to go to the school in Baiculesti.
There is only one school in Manicesti, where children can onlz follow primary school. Once they’re in the fifth grade, children have to get to a neighboring village that has seven schools. The children say that they often have to travel the distance on foot or hitch-hike because the busses come rarely and refuse to take so many of them.
“The drivers never stop because there are to many of us and we do not pay. We wave at cars and people take us to school. We pay around half a dollar for the trip, and some don’t ask money from us”, says Daniel Militaru, a 7th grade pupil. They have to go through the same trouble twice a day.
The smallest of the children is just seven years old. Cosmin Costea is in the second grade and only takes the bus to school. “My mom told me not to ride with strangers. I’d rather wait to the bus”, the child says.
“We simply do not have the money” “A small bus wouldn’t be enough so we should have about three. Other villages around us have the same problem. But we also need at least three drivers, money for their salaries, for fuel and we simply do not have the money now”, says Marian Anghel, a representative of the local authorities.
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