Beauty of alternative learning: Getting students to schools
UNESCO Bangkok article by Kanit Teerathumaskul and Rojana
Manowalailao 28 November 2012 In the marshlands of Bangladesh
where the combination of floods and poverty make normal
schooling almost impossible, BRAC’s ‘floating schools’ serve a
dual purpose. They act as a bus to pick up children and as a
classroom for learning. The new initiative of BRAC to build 400
boats for children from disadvantaged backgrounds living in the
flood plains of remote parts of Bangladesh is among many other
alternative learning strategies that this largest development
organisation in the world has introduced. Profulla Chandra
Barman, Programme Coordinator of the BRAC primary school,
visited Thailand to attend a Regional Meeting on Alternative
Learning/Schooling Programmes for Primary Education to Reach the
Unreached organized by UNESCO Bangkok in early November to
present the BRAC model, share experiences and discuss innovative
ways to get out-of-school children to learn