Across Guyana, each school has a distinct and formal school uniform. The government provides for one uniform, per child per school year, for free. There is also a free "hot meal" programme- to encourage attendance.
In this region, the way to travel to and from school is by boat.
Here, the school "bus" has become lodged on the sandy bank, due to pilot error. Children wade in to the river to help out.
Once free, the boat loads up and is on its way.
At the same landing, two boys paddled up in the family dug out boat, to collect their "auntie" from school. One boy is using his paddle to try and scoop water out of the boat, while the other was busy trying to retrieve his collection of plastic bottle lids. Their aunt was not impressed.
Every family along the river seemed to own one of these traditional boats. They would be used to take a passenger from home to a "stop" to pick up the speedboat.
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