First Vice-president Mehriban Aliyeva becomes familiarized with Boarding School No.10 in Pirshaghy settlement after basic repair

First Vice-president of the Republic of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva visited Boarding School No.10 of sanatorium type in Pirshaghy settlement, Sabunchu district of Baku, after basic repair, October 31.

First Vice-president Mehriban Aliyeva viewed a stand showing the school’s conditions before and after the repair.

Education Minister Jeyhun Bayramov informed First Vice-president Mehriban Aliyeva that Boarding School No.10 of sanatorium type has been operating since 1961. Last repair works at the school was carried out in 2005. Taking the existing condition into account, and following the Heydar Aliyev Foundation’s initiative, the Education Ministry started, in 2018, repair and construction works in the building.

The boarding school consists of education, hostel, and recreation-study buildings. The education building accommodates physics, chemistry and biology laboratories, 2 informatics rooms, 2 technology rooms, and classrooms provided with state-of-the-art equipment. The newly constructed assembly room for 320 people, a sports hall and a canteen building for 320 people too have been provided with necessary equipment.

At the moment, 746 students are educated in the Azerbaijani and Russian sections, in two shifts, at the boarding school. A staff of 97 pedagogues are engaged in their education.

Great care has been shown in Azerbaijan by the state towards strengthening the social protection of children in need of special care, as well as high-level organization of their education. Steps taken by the Azerbaijani state in this direction is greatly supported by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation led by First Vice-president Mehriban Aliyeva. The basic reconstruction of this education institution following the Foundation’s initiative once more testifies to this.