Sunday, 7 July 2013

‘Floating Schools’ Bring Classrooms to Stranded Students

This could have been any classroom in rural Bangladesh, except for the sight of an older woman in a sari, bathing in waist-deep water just outside the open window. Sounds of her splashing punctuated the lesson, along with the din of mooing cows and bleating goats. A wooden boat full of passengers and bicycles chugged past. The classroom was on a wooden boat moored to a riverbank near the village of Nasiar Kandi, Natore District, in northwestern Bangladesh. It is one of 20 free “floating

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