Children, the agents of change in rural areas

Studies have found that there is a big difference in brain development between children from higher-income homes and poor families. Photo: AFP

Disaster-savvy students help ‘protect’ families from floods and other natural disasters in Bangladesh.

BANGLADESHI teacher Monjurul Islam was talking to his class of 10-year-olds about how the planet is heating up, when Mosammat Ferdousi stood up and asked: “We are experiencing heavy floods in the last few years - is this linked to climate change?”