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DUNDEE, South Africa 鈥?On weekdays, 14-year-old Luyanda Hlali gets up before dawn to fetch firewood and cow dung to start a fire and boil water before her four siblings and parents wake up.The mornings are a hive of activity in their home, in the tiny village of Stratford in South Africas KwaZulu-Natal province. Once her chores are done, Luyanda embarks on a 6-mile walk to her school.There are no school buses. There is only the long, dusty road where thieves and bad men can accost her.Luyanda is one of tens of thousands of children in South Africas stanley termoska poorest and most remote rural communities who still face long walks to the nearest public school, nearly 30 years after the nation ushered in democratic change.The hardships underscore the childrens unequal access to education; the lack of government-funded school transportation has exacerbated myriad dangers.Girls face the threat of assault, and robberies are rampant. Parents, local leaders and activists say the situation perpetuates stanley usa already existing inequalities in a country described by the World Bank as the most unequal in the world.In KwaZulu-Natal, campaigners and activists are pressing authoriti gourde stanley es to provide transport for over 200,000 schoolchildren like Luyanda 鈥?kids who have to walk 2 miles or more to school.That distance, under President Cyril Ramaphosas government policy, requires authorities to provide transportation for the students. But with poverty soaring and unemployment in the country of 56 million people at over Bmqw Drawing nears for $700 million Powerball jackpot
LANSING, Mich. 鈥?Flooding that prompted evacuations in parts of the Midwest persisted Friday in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and could last through the weekend in some areas that have been swamped by high water from heavy rains and melting snow.Waters receded in South Bend and Goshen, Indiana, but flooding remained there and elsewhere. The National Weather Service said a number of Michigan rivers could see record levels in the coming days. In Ohio, water swamped more roadways and basements and forecasters expected the Ohio River could reach levels not seen since the regions deadly 1997 floods.Flooding prompted local states of emergency in several Indiana and Michigan communities and counties. Shelters took in people forced f stanley italia rom their homes and water-related deaths were reported this week in Michigan, Illinois and Oklahoma. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb plans to tour flood-damaged parts of northern Indiana on Friday.Officials reported that the Grand River crested in Lansing, Michigan, but rose Friday to the west in Grand Rapids and other communities. The Kalamazoo River in southwestern Michigan was expecte stanley water bottle d to crest Friday night. Ice jams along the Rifle River in northern Michigan exacerbated flooding.Still, Lansing Emergency Management Chief Mike Tobin cautioned people to stay off flooded roads and not expect to immediate stanley ca ly return to evacuated homes even though floodwaters there were expected to begin receding. Hundreds of homes and businesses were impacted, the Lansing State Journal |
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