Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 12
Trend:
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation distributed 10,000 bags and teaching aids on the eve of the school year 2014-2015 for first-form pupils from IDP and refugee families, the foundation said Sept. 11.
Each year, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation presents schoolbags and teaching aids to first-form pupils from refugee and IDP families that were forced to leave their permanent places of residence as a result of Armenia's military aggression against Azerbaijan.
Attaching special importance to education in its activity, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation has been implementing the "New school to new Azerbaijan", "Support to education", "Development of children's homes and boarding schools" and "Development of preschool institutions" programs.
During 2005-2014, within the framework of the Foundation's "New school to new Azerbaijan", the #412 school building has been built and reconstructed in various districts of the country, where over 100 thousand pupils study.
And the project "Support to education" envisages provision of education establishments with new books and teaching aids, reconstruction of preschool institutions, and taking other actions serving to raise the quality of education.