Observed arrival · 2026-11-01
Agrani teaches climate science in the language of home
A climate-education program for Indigenous children in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, connecting mother-tongue lessons with school projects, elders’ knowledge, and local-language warnings.
- For
- Grades 3–5 children in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts
- Worth noticing
- Its Language Ladder moves from mother tongue to Bangla, then English, while explicitly retaining both bridge languages.
Field notes
The course is described for Grades 3–5, with offline lessons and native-speaker audio; its language sequence starts in a child’s mother tongue, then uses Bangla and English as bridges. The wider model includes student climate clubs, a knowledge bank based on grandparents’ recordings, and local-language voice calls for warnings. The page cites 152 deaths in the 2017 hill-district landslides and a 59% primary-school dropout figure, attributing the latter to BANBEIS 2016 via IEC 2023.
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