POLITICS
Vice-President of Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva visits republican special boarding school No 5 in Baku
She was informed that the school opened in 1961. The reconstruction of the boarding school was initiated by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation in 2006.
Ms. Aliyeva was informed that 267 visually impaired children aged between 6 and 20, of them 145 totally blind, were educated in the school.
The Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation toured a canteen of the school, and chatted with children.
Children, who came from the regions, live in the 120-bed hostel of the facility. The school is fitted with the necessary equipment.
The children at the school were presented with computers.
Then, Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva visited the music school No 38 for visually impaired children. Ms. Aliyeva was told that 204 children were receiving education at the facility.
Leyla Aliyeva listened to performance of the school`s pupils.