TESTIMONIALS – Nearly four months after the start of the riots that damaged and destroyed many schools, the majority of schoolchildren have returned to their classes. A minority, however, remains stranded due to lack of transport and insecurity.
While students in mainland France returned to school on Monday, September 2, some schoolchildren in New Caledonia, in the middle of the school year (on the archipelago, the academic period runs from February to December), are struggling to get back to school. This is the case for Thibault*, who gets up every morning at 4:30 a.m. to take a ferry to his high school. Because since the riots that set the territory ablaze on May 13, the road between his home and his school has been blocked by roadblocks from the Saint-Louis tribe (one of the Kanak clans that took part in the riots). Like a hundred students and a dozen teachers, the teenager is forced to take this shuttle, set up by the local authorities, which connects Noumea to Mont-Dore.
The problem: the capacity of this boat is limited and the trips are few. “He waits at least three hours every morning, sometimes in heavy rain and strong winds.”
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