Nearly 9,000 children reside in foster homes in Kyrgyzstan
According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the
Institutions for orphans and children left without parental care have 1,080 children, from which an average of 450 young people aged from 15 to 18 graduate every year.
It is noted that the interdepartmental working group under the Ministry of Social Development developed a draft regulation on post-institutional accompaniment of orphans and children left without parental care at the age of 16 to 23.