Almost 245,000 students remain without hot school meals in Kyrgyzstan. Chief Specialist of the Department of School, Extracurricular and Additional Education of the Ministry of Education and Science, Ainura Kuseinova, announced such data.
According to her, to date, 244,933 school students are not covered by hot meals in 300 educational institutions of the country.
Ainura Kuseinova clarified that this does not apply to typical educational institutions, but to schools that do not have canteens, are not renovated or have no clean drinking water.
Schools in Osh, where only 29 out of 70 schools provide its students with hot meals, were cited as an example. In the rest, students are offered a bun and tea.
In 2025, it is planned to organize hot meals in 20 educational institutions, Ainura Kuseinova noted.
Prices of food products, procurement through tenders, low salaries of school cooks, lack of quality control of school meals, clean drinking water and sewage, and funding from the local budget are the main problems for a successful solution to the issue.
