ChakmaSpoken first, by a native speaker Audio
Banglaভূমিধস
EnglishLandslide
The program
Children learn, act, preserve and protect.
Four pillars, each with one job, standing on a Language Ladder that moves every child from mother tongue to Bangla to English.
Learn
Climate Classroom
A short, curriculum-linked climate course for Grades 3 to 5, taught in the child’s mother tongue.
Offline lesson packs
Lessons live on the teacher’s phone. No internet is needed in class.
Native-speaker audio
Every lesson is recorded in the mother tongue by people who grew up speaking it.
Picture cards
Simple pictures make each lesson easy to follow, whatever a child’s reading level.
Three-language vocabulary
Chakma, Bangla and English side by side: landslide, rainfall, forest, shelter, evacuation.
Four modules
From understanding the climate to acting on it.
AI plays a supporting role: it drafts and simplifies lessons. Native speakers check every lesson before it reaches a child.
01Understand
What climate change is, why monsoon rain is getting heavier, and how forests, soil and water are connected.
02Our hills
How climate change affects their own area: landslides, flash floods, water, forests and farming.
03Prepare
Hillside warning signs, safe places, and making a family emergency plan.
04Act
Designing and running a small climate action project at school.
Act
School Climate Clubs
Each pilot school forms a Climate Club, where students design and run a small, low-cost climate action project with local plants and materials.
Hold the slopes
Planting deep-rooted plants and grass on bare slopes near school, to help hold the soil.
A school tree nursery
Growing saplings that go back out to the hillsides around the village.
Save rainwater
Collecting rainwater and saving water through the dry months.
Map the safe routes
A hazard map of the village, with safe routes and safe places clearly marked.
Students present their projects to their community in their mother tongue, and to visitors in Bangla and English.
Preserve
Elders’ Climate Knowledge Bank
The two-way bridge. Children interview grandparents and village elders, and their wisdom becomes new lessons.
Knowledge worth keeping
Communities such as the Marma have long avoided the steepest slopes, and built stilted homes that let water pass underneath. Knowledge like this is rarely taught in schools, or written down.
Children ask
Reading the weather, choosing safe land, building homes, caring for forests and springs.
Only with consent
Recordings are made with parental and community consent. The community co-owns its knowledge.
It becomes a lesson
Recordings are transcribed, translated and turned into new lessons, and shared with the world.
Protect
Climate Messengers
During the monsoon, official warnings arrive as voice calls in Chakma, Marma and Tripura. Trained students explain them at home.
In the language of home
Short voice messages, relayed from official heavy-rain and landslide warnings.
At least half are girls
Messengers help each family make an emergency plan and know their safe place.
Safe at home
Messengers share information at home. They are never asked to take risks.
The Language Ladder
Anchor. Bridge. Window.
Children understand climate first in their mother tongue. They move gradually to Bangla, so they can read official warnings and pass national exams. Then English climate vocabulary opens a window onto regional climate conversations.
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.