TIRANA, Oct 22 /ATA/ Minister of State for Youth and Children, Bora Muzhaqi, said that, “today for the first time the government has approved a fund at disposal of policies for youths and children.”
At a media briefing after the government meeting, Muzhaqi stressed that, “thanks to the consultations with young people, we have a clear understanding of a series of problems and today we embark on the process of providing solutions for the first time to one of the problems, the part of laboratories.”
She said, “Support for technology and science labs is the first point we will address for the children and young people and we have already passed a budget for this part. Meanwhile there is a separate budget for the arts and crafts.”
Muzhaqi emphasized that, “the program we are developing will include the part of sports and at the same time editing of computer science syllabus. We are working on a program for new coders and expect that by the end of next year about 1000 coders will be trained, for which a special budget has been allocated. The government also addresses a special budget for the National Cultural Center for Children in Tirana.
She said that the draft budget for 2022 addresses financial support for the activities and promotion of Tirana as the European Capital of Youth.
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