Punmu Aboriginal Community Barrel Train

Punmu Community, a remote Aboriginal Community east of Newman in the Pilbara has a unique way of assisting community children attend school with a purpose-built Barrel Train.
The local community has banded together and built a mid-scale train made from barrels and donated the train to the local community RAWA School Principal, Sarah Mortimer. The Barrel Train was identified as a unique way to pick-up students from their homes in the morning and deliver them to school each day via a winding track. It will make an already great attendance record even better. The School will now work with the children and community to design artwork to decorate the carriages.
Our in-house technical volunteers Donald Graham and Peter Doery developed the idea with the community to build an exciting and safe way to enhance the attendance; they noted that the Barrel Train as being “better than using a “troopy” as a school bus”.
The Barrel Train was a huge success on its first day on the “track” and would not have been possible without the continued support of Newcrest Mining, Telfer who maintain a direct working relationship with the Community and provide ongoing support for Punmu and its members

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There's a lot of joy there.

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Why would some one dislike this?

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If one kid falls down , he will run over by the wagon