After The Floods: Inside A Nepal School Where Children Escaped Disaster
A lunch break and a quick evacuation helped save students as catastrophic floods swept through their school in Dhading, Nepal
School bags extracted from the mud brought in by the recent flash floods lie outside a classroom of the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
A mother searches for her child's bag from a pile extracted from the mud brought in by the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
Mud covers a classroom at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School, damaged in flash flooding in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
A student searches for her school bag from a pile extracted from the mud brought in by the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
Mud brought in by the recent flash floods surrounds a statue of the Hindu Goddess of learning Saraswati, placed at the entrance of the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
A school bag is full of mud brought in by the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
Students' lunchboxes are covered in mud brought in by the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
A mud-covered school bag and furniture lies in a classroom damaged in the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
A parent searches for her child's belongings inside a flood-damaged classroom at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
A student smiles after locating her bag from a pile extracted from the mud brought in by the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
Volunteers work to remove the mud brought in by the recent flash floods from a school compound of the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district of Nepal Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. | Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha
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