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Afghan teachers commute to school on inner tubes, amid worsening financial crisis in the country | South China Morning Post

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Every morning, Bili High School’s teachers use inner tubes to cross the river to school on the other side of the river in Eastern Afghanistan. They have asked the government to build a bridge or provide boats for years but without feedback. Decades of war have destroyed Afghanistan’s economies, and its financial cri…

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