Art and Healing

Save the Children newsletter talks about the "Art of healing." Artistic expression by drawing, painting, music, drama, and dance children are able to take their minds off of extreme poverty, and medical issues. HEART is a program that helps children to put their attention somewhere else other than every day problems they must face. HEART has helped many children in Haiti, Malawi, Mozambique and Nepal. This artistic program helps children's emotional well being and learning power.

More floating schools

Reswan continues to show the importance of education for children and adults. The floating schools provide families with classes for their children six days a week, and the parents can attend training sessions on how to  deal with their personal finances and how to farm during the monsoon season. Families are offered solar powered lamps for the attendance of their children for school. The children can stay on the boats after sunsets while their parents continue to work, which helps increase the families income.




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Jaspreet Kindra/IRINDue to the monsoon season, the people in Bangladesh have depended on many types of boats for things such as schools, health boats, and library boats. Mohammed Rezwan believes the people of these communities can survive the rapidly changing climate. One of the books they use teaches them about their local birds, fish and river erosion. River erosion could definitely be a subject they would want to learn about because it has been predicted by climate change forecast models that 1/5 of Bangladesh could be under water by the year 2050. 

Floating Schools

Bangladesh is 20% covered with floodwater's. With the land being covered by water, the schools close for some time throughout the year. Many schools are destroyed by flooding each year. A man name Mohammed Rezwan decided to take the schools to the children since the children could not go to school. He is engineering solar powered floating schools. The floating schools are mobile hubs with internet access for hundreds of communities. Rezwan is trying to help the people in this area adapt to their ever changing climate. This email I received from Exchange Every Day made me think about how I take advantage of the fact that education is so easy to come by in my community and in Bangladesh some children may not know when they will get to attend school.

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