In Bangladesh, annual flooding can disrupt school for hundreds of thousands of students. However, with the 20 free "floating schools" run by Shidhulai Swarnirvar Sangstha (a non-profit organisation), almost 70,000 children can continue to go to school.

Mr Mohammed Rezwan, founder and executive director of Shidhulai said, "I thought, if the children cannot go to school because of floods, then the school should go to them by boat." Traditional Bangladeshi wooden boats have been modified to fit 30 children and a teacher. And these boats are not shabby too as a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2005 allowed Shidhulai to buy computers, install solar power and create a central library. Free adult classes are even held on these boats.

There are plans to add 100 more boats in the next five years to reach an additional 100,000 people.

For more information, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/world/asia/floating-schools-in-bangladesh.html?ref=education&_r=0

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