Our Work

The school-boat first serves as a school bus, making periodic stops to collect children from riverside stops. The boat then docks and class begins. This is the way a floating school works throughout the day and arrange 3 classes. Each school consists of a classroom for 30 students, a laptop, hundreds of books, and electronic resources. School provides basic primary education up to grade V. We have introduced the river-based environmental curriculum that teaches how to protect the environment and conserve water. The solar power enables floating school to provide late evening classes to the working children. Some students get our in-house developed Surya-hurricane solar lanterns as scholarships.

Some boats have complete facility of a standing library, for example, 1,500 books, 2 to 4 laptops with internet access, printer and mobile phones. Children, youths, senior citizens, and particularly women learn computer skills and get information on agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, job opportunities, human rights, government process and services.

Floating training centers are equipped with internet-linked laptop, multimedia equipment and educational presentations. They make their way through the rivers, docking at villages to teach women and girls on new skills, sustainable agriculture, climate change adaptation, and women rights. Laptop connected to the internet via the cellular network provide connection between users and agricultural experts at research institute. During the day time the boat arrange onboard training programs and at late evening educational programs are arranged on large sail-cloth so that many people can see from their own courtyards.

Floating clinics move along the winding rivers, docking at the villages, it arrange onboard medical checkups. With doctors on board, the boats are equipped with necessary medicines, which are given free to the patients. It also provides health education to the villagers.

We train local farmers on developing integrated floating farming methods to grow vegetables and raise fish and ducks on river, to help them carry on where no land to farm on. It has helped landless farmers to secure their income, food and employment throughout the year.