Taslima swimming to school with her books.
WHEN children of her age usually look for any excuse to skip school if there is a little rain or the neighbourhood street is swamped with rainwater, seventh grader Taslima Khatun swims across not one, but two canals to get to her school every day.
This has been her routine for the past three weeks as the two shallow canals -- one about 200 feet wide and the other about 300 feet -- swelled up after the Mahananda river recently flooded low-lying areas of Char Anupnagar union in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila.
