A wooden boat serving as a floating classroom in a flooded region of Bangladesh.
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NPR
Bangladesh once had special boats that brought classrooms to children trapped by floods. Now, many of those schools are gone.
In Bangladesh, heavy rain and rising rivers often flood the land. For a long time, this made it hard for kids to get to school. When the water was high, the roads were gone and the paths were muddy. Years ago, a smart solution came along: floating schools. These were boats turned into classrooms. They would travel through the water to pick up children who lived in remote, flooded areas. It meant that even when the world around them was underwater, kids could still sit at a desk and learn to read and write. It was a famous project that people all over the world talked about. But lately, the…
