Pakistan ranks among the world's most climate-vulnerable nations. As monsoons intensify and floods become more frequent, the country's already fragile education system faces a deepening crisis. Natural disasters, particularly recurrent floods, routinely damage school infrastructure, displace communities and disrupt learning. Yet, relief practices often treat education as an afterthought, converting schools into shelters and compromising educational continuity. The result: generations of children lose not only classrooms but also opportunities.

Each monsoon season, floodwaters ravage classrooms, wash away textbooks and force schools to shut down. In many districts, school buildings, often constructed with minimal resilience, are either destroyed or declared unsafe. In others, schools that remain structurally intact are repurposed as emergency shelters, displacing students and teachers alike. This double burden of physical destruction and use as relief hubs renders classrooms inaccessible for weeks or even........

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