
BANGLADESH
MR Mohammed Rezwan
As a native of a flood-prone community, seeing first-hand, the hardship of riverside communities with restricted access to education, Mohammed Rezwan saw that the roads became impassable during the monsoon season, leaving students unable to go to school. This led to a high number of dropouts in the flood-prone regions. Although his own family’s boat ensured Mohammed’s travel to school during the monsoon season, he saw many of his friends and relatives could not go. Finding this difficult to accept, he thought that the school should be brought to the children by boat and so, built the first floating school. Soon, volunteers stepped forward one by one, and in every way the whole community, rural people became involved with the project of providing education to children who could not travel to school.