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  • In northern Bangladesh, just below the Himalayas, there's a school unlike any you've probably seen.

  • Rather than brick and mortar buildings, these classrooms float.

  • In most of Bangladesh, the roads are poor and the environment is powerful.

  • Every year, over a fifth of the country floods, isolating people in small villages and cutting kids off from school.

  • So a man named Mohammad Rezwan had an idea.

  • School bus and school house, it picks up students from several pickup points, arranges classes, and again, drops students at their places.

  • There are different boats with different purposes.

  • There are classroom boats, library boats, boats for computers, and even ones for play.

  • In groups of 30, kids aged six to 10 attend classes covering the main points of early childhood education.

  • The children learn Bengali, English, math, drawing.

  • This school has solar power to run computers.

  • It has hundreds of books.

  • It is a place for them to spend quality time and stay.

  • With millions of children out of school in Bangladesh, these kids are getting a chance that many others don't, a chance to learn and hopefully change their lives.

  • Our floating school is the only educational option for them.

  • Without floating school, there is not any other way for them to learn.

  • The education can lead a better life for these children.

  • There are millions of people out there who need this kind of intervention.

  • Someone has to do the work, and in my case, I was the person to do it, but still a long way to go.

In northern Bangladesh, just below the Himalayas, there's a school unlike any you've probably seen.

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