Working trip to Zhezkazgan: Gulshara Abdykalikova checks quality of pre-school education

Government • 18 April, 2019

Working trip to Zhezkazgan: Gulshara Abdykalikova checks quality of pre-school education

Working group led by the Deputy Prime Minister Gulshara Abdykalikova, consisting of the ministers of labor and social protection of the population Berdibek Saparbayev, education and science Kulyash Shamshidinova, healthcare Yelzhan Birtanov, Chair of the Committee for Construction, Housing and Communal Services Markhabat Zhayymbetov, arrived in the city of Zhezkazgan, Karaganda region, reports the press service of PM.

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The first point of the delegation’s route was the medical center, which since 2014 has been a subsidiary of Corporation Kazakhmys LLP. About 800 people receive medical services there daily, and 300 patients are treated in inpatient settings.

Then the vice premier arrived at the Ertustik kindergarten, which specializes in organizing inclusive education and the formation of a healthy lifestyle for children. The preschool institution has modern equipment, there is a computer class with an interactive whiteboard, sensory and medical cabinets, speech therapist and psychologist. Today, 255 children receive educational services.

Gulshara Abdykalikova also visited the center “Bright Minds.” Its main task is to provide the public with access to digital technologies, carried out according to advanced techniques, training in programming languages and robotics. At the center, children from large, low-income families and young people are trained and spend their leisure time.

Further, the deputy prime minister and the minister of labor and social protection of the population inspected the work of the Public Service Center, the Employment Center. In 2018, 2,728 people found permanent jobs. A total of 2,108 people are receiving active employment measures. Of them, 243 are engaged in short-term vocational training, 115 found social jobs, 121 started youth internships. And 100 people were trained under the Bastau-Business project, 19 received microcredits.

Then Abdykalikova held a personal reception of citizens. In particular, Gulmira Amanzholova, a mother of five children, turned to her with a request to resolve the issue of a 50% discount on tuition fees for her two children studying at Zhezkazgan University. The vice premier was charged with resolving this issue. The question of Nazira Mamyrbayeva, who cares for a disabled child, was also resolved. Abdykalikova instructed to send them under the quota to the Republican Rehabilitation Center in May 2019.

The main event of the day was a meeting on the social responsibility of business with the participation of akims. Zhezkazgan, Satpayev, Karazhal, Zhanaarkyn and Ulytau districts, heads of large enterprises, business structures, trade unions. Opening the meeting, Abdykalikova stressed that in many large companies a model of corporate social responsibility inherent in developed countries with elements of public-private partnership, charity and patronage is developing.

“The very fact of discussing the concept of ‘social responsibility of business’ means that Kazakhstan, thanks to the implementation of reforms initiated by Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev, made a big step towards the formation of a civilized market. In general, in the republic in 2018, within the framework of social responsibility, business built 290 social facilities for a total of 89.8 billion tenge,” said Abdykalikova.

At the end of the meeting, she called on the leaders of the business community to systematically promote the social responsibility of business, providing all kinds of social assistance to large families and low-income workers.

The final stage of the working visit of the Deputy Prime Minister Abdykalikova to the city of Zhezkazgan was a visit to the family of Gulbana Nurmagambetova, a mother of many children, who is raising eight children. She works as a conveyor driver at the processing plant. The Kazakhmys Corporation presented it with a four-room furnished apartment. The flat owner thanked the state heartily for the current social policy aimed at caring for the people.

In turn, the other members of the working group went to Zhezkazgan, Satpayev. They visited hospitals, clinics, schools, facilities under construction. Meetings were held with local residents, teachers, doctors, representatives of contracting organizations. In addition, personal receptions were held, where specific answers were given to the questions asked.

The working visit of the Government delegation will be continued in Karaganda.