Some 60 schools will be constructed for short-term use in Rakhine State to make up for those destroyed by flooding, 7Day Daily is reporting.
Floods in Rakhine over the past few weeks have wiped out educational facilities.
“Monasteries are serving as schools in some villages at the moment,” an official from the Rakhine State Education Instruction Committee was quoted as saying.
The region in northwestern Myanmar was hit hard because of its proximity to the Bay of Bengal, where Cyclone Komen gathered strength and produced rains that blanketed coastal communities in late July and early August. The nationwide death toll stands at 110. At one point almost half of the victims were from Rakhine.
Schools across the country were devasted by the floods, with nearly 500 “destroyed,” according to a government report this week.
Photo of kids eating a snack in Rakhine State on August 4 / Hongsar Ramonya
