**6. Destruction of infrastructural resources with human dislocation and loss of lives**

Findings from discussion groups and interviewees reported that the floods submerged infrastructures, such as shops, roads and footpaths, market, schools, churches, healthcare center, electricity poles were destroyed by the flood, although the use of low-building materials has not helped the impact of the consistent flooding in the community. Following the flooding, the schools were shut down once again after the initial three (3) months COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. This was a source of worry to community members, who were not only grieved by the disruption of their academic pursuit, but by the deaths of their infants during the floods. Notably, the low standards of the learning environment and the schools built with poor-quality structures can easily give way to intense storms and floods (see **Figure 12**).

The pupils and teachers have been studying under a collapsing wooden building because there are no classrooms to learn as past floods have submerged the buildings. The learning environment is not conducive and may affect the teaching and learning process, in addition to the long periods of flood intervention where the schools are closed annually. Due to the absence of electricity (floods submerged poles), there are no technological structures to facilitate Internet learning.

Obviously, the early childhood educational development in the area has been consistently affected. Early childhood education is a critical time of learning and foundation to leverage other levels of education. One of the elders during the course of interview on the schools added that …

*… our people suffer from flood problem all the time. The state government have tried to help the situation, but it is still persistent. Our children education is suffering because we have shut down the schools during the floods to avoid our children from death, drowning or sustaining injuries. On several occasions the school have lost all their chairs, desks, office furniture to the flood. We are begging the state government to bring a permanent solution to the flood.*

**Figure 12.** *Poorly developed school structures and learning environment in the study area.*

*Climate-Driven Temporary Displacement of Women and Children in Anambra State, Nigeria… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104817*

Also, the community Chief added

*… we found that our building were going under the water and our people were trapped, displaced, many injured and cases of deaths, especially children drowning during the flood.*

The closure of all socioeconomic, religious and educational activities in the community was for over 6 months for the floods to recede. Also, the flood affected infrastructure, the quality of water polluting the rivers in Ogbaru LGA, and affecting economic activities [34]. Again, the flood caused the influx of snakes and other dangerous reptiles into homes-seeking refuge from the flood placing the life of people at greater risk of attack [35].
