Kyrgyzstan
In Kyrgyzstan farmers don't grow sufficient food to feed everyone and imported food is expensive. Many children don't go to school and can't get treatment when they are ill.
Kyrgyzstan appeal
Ethnic violence in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad and surrounding areas in Kyrgyzstan forced more than 300,000 children and adults from their homes. We are doing all we can for those affected but we need to do more. You can help us.
What we’re doing
- We’re helping 4,540 teachers and school inspectors raise the quality of education
- We’ve enabled 851 school drop-outs to return to school
- We’re helping children who are living in orphanages to return to family care
Save the Children in Kyrgyzstan
We started work in Central Asia in 1992, when we provided food, clothing and shelter to children and families in need.
We work to ensure that all children attend primary school and to improve the quality of the education they receive there. We also strive to keep children safe from harm, particularly street children and those living in orphanages.
We’re enabling schools to welcome all pupils
In Kyrgyzstan, we’ve developed a manual to help schools include all pupils fully in school activities, whatever their background. We used this in training sessions with 110 participants from ten school coordination groups — teachers, school administrators, parents and children — so that they can make their schools somewhere that all children feel welcome.
We’re supporting the work of local education councils
Kyrgyzstani community education councils (CECs) have played a big part in enrolling more children in their schools. In particular, they have raised the money needed to fund extra activities, such as the clubs run by the children.
As a result of these activities, 851 refugee and other children who were not going to school in 2006 are now attending full time. Nearly half of these children are girls.
We’re protecting abandoned children
The sudden poverty many Kyrgyzstani families experienced after independence made it difficult to take care of their children. The number of state-run institutions — and the number of children that live in them — has doubled since 1991. Most of these children have at least one surviving parent or extended family.
We’re improving the care the children receive within the orphanages. Funded by the European Union, we’re working with the teachers and carers in three orphanages which are home to 469 children.
Learn more about our work in Kyrgystan, download the Central Asia brief (PDF 91KB).
