Students and parents on orientation day, Arcadia Education Project, South Kanarchor, Bangladesh.
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Article Author: The school that rises with the water level
Media Source: Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh)
Date: 23 September 2019
After four decades of teaching in the United Kingdom, Razia Alam returned to Bangladesh and established a school for underprivileged children with her pension funds. When the lease on the school premises expired, she purchased a riverside plot which remains submerged in up to 3m of monsoon water for a third of the year. She called…
After four decades of teaching in the United Kingdom, Razia Alam returned to Bangladesh and established a school for underprivileged children with her pension funds. When the lease on the school premises expired, she purchased a riverside plot which remains submerged in up to 3m of monsoon water for a third of the year. She called upon a familiar architect, Saif Ul Haque, who brought ingenuity and innovation. The school recently won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019 with the innovative concept of a floating school.