Renewed Regional Primary School in Kazár Handed Over 7 April 2010
The Aba Sámuel Primary and Elementary Art School in Kazár was granted over 171 million HUF to carry out developments.
Funding amounting to 105 billion HUF has been made available up to 2011 within the framework of the NHDP National School Renewal Programme, enabling the implementation of 365 projects. This ensures the opportunity to renew numerous outdated, run-down kindergarten and school buildings and set up quality educational institutions. The most significant kindergarten and school renewal programme of the past 50 years is being implemented within the framework of NHDP. EU funding amounting to over 171 million HUF was granted to develop Aba Sámuel Primary and Elementary Art School in Kazár.
The Aba Sámuel Primary and Elementary Art School based in Kazár functions as the seat of an education association financed by 4 settlements. The school manages, in a highly professionally way, to compensate for weaknesses experienced by disadvantaged children living in this under-developed region. The number of children enrolled in this school is continually increasing and its role as a key regional service provider is strengthening as an outcome of the professional efforts made at the school; however, the school lacked the infrastructure required to advance these efforts. Infrastructural investments underlying further content-developments were carried out within the framework of the project that has just been handed over.
The immediate aim of the project implemented in Kazár involved upgrading the quality of education provided and improving its efficiency, as well as developing the institution’s infrastructures. The school strived to attain these goals by creating 2 new classrooms supporting integrated education and capacity extension, procuring a range of equipment and setting up a gymnasium suitable for promoting health education.
The school’s ultimate goal was to reduce inequalities experienced in education ensuing from the social background of students, balance opportunities for continuing education, and in turn, reduce the drop-out rate in the case of disadvantaged children, hence contributing to improving the level of education in the region.
Material conditions required for primary art education, which, even before the implementation of this project were ensured at a high standard, improved as an outcome of these developments. Residents in Kazár hope that it will also be possible to improve the settlement’s and region’s competitiveness and decrease the high unemployment and migration rate experienced in this region by offering a modern educational environment.