Floods sweep future from Pakistan schoolchildren

In Pakistan, where a third of the country lives in hardship on less than $4 a day, education is a rare ticket out of grinding poverty.

In this picture taken on October 28, 2022, Adbul Qadir (R) along with children walk across a metal girder atop floodwaters in Chandan Mori, in Dadu district of Sindh province. (Photo by Asif HASSAN /