USAID donates over 380,000 books to schools across Kyrgyzstan

Bishkek, Sept. 24, 2019 / Kabar /. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will donate 384,250 books for supplementary reading to Kyrgyzstan’s schools. A handing over ceremony of the books will be held in Bishkek on Sept. 26 at the National Computer Gymnasium School.
The books are both in Kyrgyz and Russian.
Minister of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan Kanybek Isakov and USAID Kyrgyz Republic Mission Director Gary Linden are expected to participate in the ceremony.
The books are produced under USAID’s Time to Read program, which is a 4-year $9.9 million initiative implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic. The program is designed to improve the reading skills of primary grade children by introducing more interactive ways to learn reading. By the end of 2020, USAID plans to print and distribute more than 1.2 million story books across the Kyrgyz Republic.