Agence France-Presse compiled a package from photographers around the world documenting children going to school. This is a selection of their images giving insight into the lives of students in various countries. -Leanne Burden Seidel ( 37 photos total)

Palestinian school children stand at the patio of their UNRWA school on the first day of the new school year in Gaza City, on August 25. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

Kelvin Leadismo,12, with his schoolbag hanging on his shoulder, tends to his family's cattle at Kisima township of Kenya's nothern county of Samburu before he heads off at tuition on July 17. The Samburu community students are usually unable to attend regular daytime classes, at nearby Loltulelei primary school. The school runs a parallel tuition program that enables shepherds to acquire literacy through the two to three hour tuition courses presided over by volunteer teachers. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) #

Six-year-old monk apprentice Tandi Dorji (C) as he walks to breakfast at a monastery in Thimpu, the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan on June 3. Dorji is the youngest monk at the Buddhist monastery where over 200 monks learn among other things, about meditation, chants, holy scripture and about performing rituals honoring various bodhisattvas. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images) #

(Top L): Kelvin Leadismo, 12, empties his schoolbag in Kisima township of Kenya's nothern county of Samburu. (Top R): View of Emma Xerroch's schoolbag taken in La Orotava on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife. (Bottom L): View of 9-year-old South Korean student Lim Jee-Woo's schoolbag and accessories at her home in Goyang, north of Seoul. (Bottom R):The contents of a trunk that six-year-old monk apprentice Tandi Dorji shares with a class mate at a monastery in Thimpu, the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan. (AFP/Getty Images / Tony Karumba / Desiree Martin / Jung Yeon-Je / Roberto Schmidt) #
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