About 1,000 children brought up in religious institutions of Kyrgyzstan
The Ministry of Labor and Social Development of Kyrgyzstan told where the children who had been left without parental care are being raised.
About 1,080 children are brought up in orphanages, 2,001 children- in special boarding schools for disabled people, 3, 474 children — in boarding schools. The stationary social institutions of the Ministry of Social Development raise 428 children, private orphan homes — 988 children, religious children’s institutions — 917.
According to the Family and Children Protection Department, children get into orphanages because of the death of parents, when parents are recognized as missing or incompetent, because of deprivation or restriction of their parental rights, when the parents are serving sentence in detention facilities. In addition, children are left in the maternity hospitals because of external and internal migration.
More than 60 rehabilitation and crisis centers in
