Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash
Newsflash/Pablo Daniel Martin
This is the moment a teenager sits in a wooden box and uses a pulley system to cross a huge river so he could collect his homework during COVID-19 lockdown.
Agustin Vazquez, 15, attends the Mapu Mahuida of Bardas Blancas School in the district of Rio Grande in the department of Malargue located in the in the western Argentina province of Mendoza.
Newsflash/Pablo Daniel Martin 
Newsflash/Pablo Daniel Martin 
Newsflash/Pablo Daniel Martin 
Newsflash/Pablo Daniel Martin 
Newsflash/Pablo Daniel Martin
His teacher Pablo Daniel Martin filmed him collecting his homework in the remote region, which borders with neighbouring country Chile.
According to local media, teachers at the rural school have been assigning homework since lockdown measures were introduced to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Newsflash/Pablo Daniel Martin
The video shows Vazquez using a pulley system to cross a large river so that he could collect his homework from a teacher.
The teacher told Newsflash: “We communicated with the families through radio and informed them we were setting homework on a set day.
“I then saw Agustin, who lives about one kilometre from the ‘cage’ (pulley system), riding his horse to get to the crossing used by him and other students.”
The young student told local media: “To move the cage, you need a lot of strength in your arms and back. We use it several times a day.”
According to reports, the student has to ride his horse to the ‘cage’, cross the river and then walk a long distance to his school in Malargue.
Agustin said: “The cage is better than riding a horse all the way, but it is a little dangerous. Sometimes things fall out and we cannot retrieve them.”
His teacher told Newsflash that Agustin wants to be a veterinarian or a footballer when he leaves school.
According to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins University, Argentina has registered 4,127 cases of COVID-19 and 207 related deaths.
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