Floating schools in Bangladesh are bringing education to stranded students

Low-lying areas in poor countries like Bangladesh get severely hit because of frequent floods. Essential services in these rural areas become a tragic casualty because of the effects of global warming. This has resulted in making even something as basic as attending school extremely hazardous for the children living over there. Mohammed Rezwan, a Bangladeshi architect, has come up with an innovative solution to this problem: floating schools.

Rezwan designed boats that would serve as floating schools, libraries, health clinics and training centres for the youth in the region. They are even equipped with wireless internet access. These floating schools have now become a boon for the children over there who had to miss school in past because of flooding.

Mohammed Rezwan says that he decided to undertake this project as he wasn’t happy about the high school drop-out rate in the region. “I thought that if the children cannot come to the school for lack of proper transportation, then the school should come to them, by boat,” he told the BBC.

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