Giving Compass' Take:

• The award-winning nonprofit Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha has already built 23 floating schools in a disaster-prone area of the country. There are 75 million children worldwide who are currently out of school because of conflict or natural disaster. 

• How can we ensure children are still getting an education in the midst of and in the aftermath of natural disasters?

• Here is another example of helping children get their educations in vulnerable countries.  

School must go on during monsoon season in Bangladesh. And for students living near the Atrai river, that means attending class on a boat.

Mohammed Rezwan, founder of the award-winning nonprofit Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, is using year-round floating schools to ensure floods don’t stop Bengali children from getting an education, NPR reports.

As one of the most flood-prone countries in the world, Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters. Up to 70% of the South Asian country can end up submerged in water because a lot of its land is less than 16 feet above sea level. This leaves too many opportunities for children to miss class because they can’t get there.

Read the full article on floating schools in Bangladesh by Leah Rodriguez at Global Citizen