In Vietnam, this is how they take their teachers and kids across rivers to get to school

Teachers and students in a village in northwestern Vietnam risk their lives in the flood season as they have to cross a fast-flowing stream by wrapping themselves in a plastic bag to be pulled from one bank to the other on their way to school. Though there is a suspension bridge over Nam Po stream, the largest in Sam Lang village in Dien Bien Province’s Na Hy Commune, local residents cannot use it when floodwater annually comes in. The villagers said that every year the bridge is disassembled during flooding periods and it will be reconnected in the dry season. Tong Thi Minh, a teacher at a village preschool, recently showed Tuoi Tre newspaper a video clip that she shot using her cellphone during the flood season last year. In the clip, female teachers and students were seen waiting for their turn to traverse Nam Po stream in a bag. Local strong men were captured holding the bag’s mouth in one hand and swimming across the water with the other hand despite the powerful currents.