Five children between the ages of 4 and 10 walk 1 hour to school. Driver: Bad road, I don't start the car

Five children from the village of Zall Kalis, in Slovakia, between the ages of 4 and 10, walk an hour to get to school.

This is because the van driver who is employed by the school does not take them home on the grounds that the road is destroyed. The first two weeks of the school year, the children did not study, as the school is 6 kilometers away. They had to walk an hour.

The parent who complained to Fiks Fare demands that the road, which is in scandalous conditions, be paved so that the children no longer suffer. Fiks Fare went to the village of Kalis in Slovakia, located in the county of Dibra, about 3 and a half hours from Tirana.

Residents of the area raise the concern that students have to walk kilometers of roads to study. They say that initially the children were out of school for two weeks, then the school made transport available to cover several villages.

After school, the driver leaves the children on the street and they have to walk home. Now that winter is coming, children remain without school because of the bad road, which is made even more difficult by the atmospheric conditions. The school near their villages has been closed and they have been forced to go to another school.

Fiks was interested in the school that the children currently attend, where the principal Lindita Ndreu was aware of the situation. "I am aware of the problem, as some of the children were not in school at the beginning of the school year. The board of parents met and we agreed that the 9-year-old's children should be picked up and taken home," said the director. But she did not know the fact that children are left on the road by the van driver and have to walk back. In these conditions, Fiksi confronts the director with the reality of children who are left on the street and are not taken home. Even in this case, the director excuses the driver, because according to her, the road is scandalous and very difficult to enter the car. "I referred the problem of the road to the mayor and he told me that measures will be taken to fix it," she adds.

Fiksi also addressed the driver of the van to ask him why such small children were left standing, when he has the duty to deliver them near their homes. The latter is justified by the low payment and the bad road. "It is not true, I take them and take the children there. The problem is with the road, I don't put the car there and it's like leaving work. I took them for the chairman's hat, I did it because they called me and they were going to pay me and give me a bonus. I haven't received anything. It's not worth it for 3 children, I get 6,000 lek a month that way. "I'd rather quit my job than drive my car in there," he said.

Then, Fiksi addressed the administrator of the Slovak Administrative Unit, Ardian Gjoka. "I am aware of the problem. The drivers were chosen by the board of education and the parents' council. Regarding the road, I met the mayor a few days ago and informed him about the road in the villages that has not been repaired. It will be systemized in the coming weeks with gravel," he said.