Start small. Prove it through one monsoon.
One language first. About ten schools. Every pillar measured, before we ask anyone to scale it.
- Phase 1 · One school year
Chakma, in about ten schools
Rangamati and Khagrachari, all four pillars, through one full monsoon.
- Phase 2
Marma and Tripura
More schools, and a larger Elders’ Knowledge Bank.
- Phase 3
Beyond the hills
Other indigenous communities in Bangladesh, then partner communities across Asia-Pacific.
What we’re building first.
A minimum version of every pillar, small enough to test with real children before the pilot. We will publish the before-and-after quiz result here once the test is done, and not before.
The first climate module, 3 to 5 lessons, recorded in Chakma with picture and vocabulary cards
In progressTwo or three verified landslide warning templates, as a demo voice call
In progressOne recorded interview with an elder
In progressA test with a small group of children, with a short climate quiz before and after
In progressEvery pillar has a number.
If a pillar can’t show what changed, it doesn’t earn a place in Phase 2.
| Area | What we measure |
|---|---|
| Climate education | Children’s climate knowledge scores before and after the course |
| Climate action | Climate Club projects completed, such as slopes planted or hazard maps made |
| Preparedness | Share of pilot households with an emergency plan and a known safe place |
| Warning reach | Households receiving warnings in their language, and time from official warning to delivery |
| Knowledge preserved | Elders’ practices recorded and turned into lessons |
| Inclusion | Share of girls among Climate Messengers and Climate Club leaders |
| Education | Attendance in pilot schools |
Low-tech, built on what exists, and open to copy.
Built for replication
An open toolkit: lesson templates, a recording and verification process, a warning-template library, and guides for Clubs and Messengers. A new language needs local volunteers and recordings, not new technology.
Children multiply the impact
Each Climate Messenger reaches a whole household, and each Climate Club reaches its village.
Low-tech, low-cost
Offline teacher phones and voice calls to basic phones. Children’s projects use local plants and materials.
No parallel system
Agrani builds on the national curriculum, official warnings and community knowledge.
Other projects either teach climate in the national language, or translate warnings into local languages. Agrani connects the classroom, the household and the elders in one cycle: children learn climate in their own language, act on it through school projects, protect their families as messengers, and preserve their community’s climate knowledge.
Learn in the language of home. Lead in the languages of climate action.
Climate knowledge only protects people when they can understand it. Help us run the first pilot through one full monsoon.