You’ve Never Seen Schools Like This (We Promise)

Children with their chalkboards attend class inside a bus that's been converted into a "School on Wheels" inside a slum in the southern Indian city of Hyderaba. The mobile school, run by the CLAP Foundation, brings education to the doorstep of disadvantaged children every day. More than half of Indian fifth graders are unable to read at a second grade level, with illiteracy rates rising at both government and private schools.

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Cua Van Floating Primary School is located in the middle of the ocean, miles from Vietnam's mainland. It's part of the Cua Van Floating Fishing Village, occupied by a few hundred people in Halong Bay. There are about 70 students from the ages of 6 to 14 that row to class each day.

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Children play in the cockpit of a plane that has been converted into a learning center in Tbilisi. The literacy rate in Georgia is an impressive 99.7 percent, but the country still has a 16 percent unemployment rate.

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Students eat their lunch inside a classroom constructed from mud and old cement bags at the Aman Setu school in Pune, about 118 mile from Mumbai. Almost every part of the school is made out of recycled material, including roofs constructed from old hoardings, walls built from plastic bottles, and hand-stitched uniforms made out of eco-friendly 'khadi', or handspun, cloth. Inside the school consisting of just two one-story structures, which house four classrooms, students sit on rattan mats on a cow dung-plastered floor, use textbooks handed down from other students, and grow their own vegetables in a small garden.

Makeshift and recycled classrooms are increasingly vital to lower-income children as the cost of private education in India continues to rise.

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Children of migrant workers pose for a picture outside containers used as classrooms during an after-school program initiated by Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC) in Beijing on May 25, 2011. In the 1980s, China’s big cities had a total of 20 million migrant workers. Today there are over 250 million migrant workers and 20 million migrant children in need of education. This has prompted universities to accept more migrants into their programs.

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