Thursday, October 4, 2018

Bangladesh kids turn the tide on climate change aboard floating schools

But seven-year-old Mosammat is learning her ABCs aboard a boat fitted with a classroom and play equipment that is helping children thrive even as climate change alters the world around them.
"We can attend classes even during the rainy season, when our homes are barely above water," the seven-year-old told AFP aboard the vessel in Chalan Beel, some 175 kilometres (around 110 miles) northwest of Dhaka'
https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/bangladesh-kids-turn-tide-climate-change-aboard-floating-schools-doc-18y8y81
Article courtesy of AFP by Munir Uz Zaman.

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