Nghe An officially supports cooking money for preschool students in especially difficult communes.

The Provincial People's Committee has just issued Decision No. 4325/QD-UBND on allocating the provincial budget, the post-educational budget allocation with an additional amount of VND 6,110,938,000 to Hoang Mai districts and town to hire cooks to serve boarding students at public kindergartens in extremely disadvantaged communes, from semester 2, school year 2019 - 2020 and September, October 2020 according to Resolution No. 25/2019/NQ-HDND dated December 12, 2019 of the Provincial People's Council.

Accordingly, this funding source will support 10 mountainous districts including Anh Son, Tan Ky, Nghia Dan, Quy Hop, Quy Chau, Que Phong, Con Cuong, Tuong Duong, Ky Son, Thanh Chuong and some disadvantaged communes in Nghi Loc, Dien Chau, Quynh Luu districts and Hoang Mai town. Among these, Ky Son is the district that receives the most support with a total amount of more than 1.1 billion VND.

Although it is a boarding school, Lien Huong school (Tam Quang Kindergarten - Tuong Duong) does not have a communal kitchen. Therefore, every day, teachers have to transport rice from another school in the commune to the children. Photo: My Ha

Previously, on December 12, at the 12th session, the People's Council of Nghe An province, term XVII, passed a Resolution stipulating the level of financial support for hiring cooks to serve boarding students at public kindergartens in particularly disadvantaged communes in the area.

Specifically, financial support for hiring a cook to serve boarding children is equal to 135% of the basic salary/month/35 nursery children or 50 kindergarten children; the remaining 20 children or more will be calculated once more, but each school will only be supported a maximum of 5 times the standard/month; the support period is not more than 9 months/year.

JobProvincial People's CouncilThrough the support plan, it has significantly contributed to helping schools and parents cover part of the costs of organizing boarding for children.

Regarding this issue, Nghe An Newspaper has also published many articles reflecting on the difficulties and hardships in organizing boarding schools in preschools in particularly disadvantaged areas, especially at remote schools. Many schools, instead of organizingboarding schoolThe focus is on implementing a boarding model for foster parents or foster mothers.

Currently, according to a survey by the Department of Education and Training, the whole province has 123 schools.preschoolpublic schools in particularly difficult areas. However, currently 100% of schools have organized boarding for children, of which 320 schools have cooking at school (accounting for 65.9%). The number of children having cooking at school is 34,298/38,440 children, accounting for 89.2%.

However, the implementation of boarding school is still very difficult, because the facilities of the separate schools areparticularly disadvantaged communesThere are still many limitations such as temporary classrooms and no safe kitchen to cook at school for children (currently there are 181 separate schools without kitchens). The rest are having to apply the form of boarding with local people.

With support for hiring out cooks, teachers in mountainous districts will have more time to focus on teaching instead of having to go into the kitchen to help cook for children. Photo: Duc Anh

Meanwhile, the food allowance for children according to Decree 06/2018 and Decree 105/2020 (VND 160,000/child/month) only meets 50% of the daily food allowance compared to the average minimum meal allowance to ensure daily nutrition for children. Therefore, only 60% of schools mobilize parents to contribute an additional VND 15,000/child/day; the rest only organize lunch for children, and parents ensure the extra meals themselves.

In particular, children of nursery age (under 36 months) are not eligible for lunch support according to Government regulations, making it difficult for parents to organize boarding at school.

Parents and teachers in remote Nghe An 'contribute rice' to organize boarding for students at remote schools

(Baonghean.vn) - Nghe An's preschools currently have more than 660 separate schools, concentrated in remote and disadvantaged areas. However, for many years now, the schools have maintained the organization of boarding for children to ensure that students attend school regularly and fully.