Almost 1.5 billion soms have been allocated from the budget for school meals this year. The Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan reported.
According to the ministry, 1,495.9 billion soms have been allocated from the republican budget for these purposes.
Earlier, the Chief Specialist at the Department of School, Extracurricular and Additional Education Ainura Kuseinova reported that almost 245,000 students remain without hot meals at school.
According to her, to date 244,933 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.
Support in organizing school meals is provided by the UN WFP to 920 educational institutions of the country, by Mercy Corps — to 900 schools.
