A seminar has taken place in Nukus on issues of properly arranging summer holidays for children.

A seminar has taken place in Nukus on issues of properly arranging summer holidays for children.

In this summer holiday season, 6 stationary and 20 day camps will be working in the Republic of Qoraqalpoghiston. 11 thousand 160 children are to stay at these camps on their summer holidays. For college students, “Work and joy”, “Intellectual development” and “Military sports and health” centres will be functioning.

At the seminar attended by representatives of the Qoraqalpogh trade unions of the Trade Unions Federation of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Public Education, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Culture, state and public establishments and managers of children’s recreational facilities, detailed information was given about making these facilities ready for the season, providing them with highly qualified teaching staff and medical workers and creating all-round good conditions for children. There was also discussion about supplying foodstuffs to the camps and about tasks relating to the strict observance of public health and hygiene standards and fire safety rules.

It was emphasized that today the Qoraqalpogh trade unions were paying special attention to the protection of workers’ socio-economic interests and labour rights and to the raising of the quality and effectiveness of effort for children’s health improvement.

“A plan of measures for summer season rest has been worked out. In accordance with it, children’s visits will be arranged to picturesque places of nature, to museums and parks of recreation and also to sports facilities. Artistic groups of theatres will be showing interesting programmes,” says an official of the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Qoraqalpoghiston, R.Tangribergenov.

For the purpose of increasing the interest of young people in reading books and raising their book-reading culture, there will be libraries with more than 9,400 books at every camp.

During the seminar, measures were mapped out for meaningful leisure activities for those staying at the camps and for entertainment programmes, exhibitions of books, sports competitions and artistic contests.