Check canteens in Almaty turned into threats

Employees of public Foundation held a secret assessment of products and dishes in Almaty. Permission to check they received in the Department of education, in order to solve a problem situation.

The President of the public Fund Marianna Gurina said that the inspections were conducted in all districts of the city, but the numbers of schools call they refused.

'In the dining halls menus hang, but we did not find almost not a single school where this menu was indeed available. Of the 10 schools with different menus, the owners of the canteens were feeding children the same food,' said Marianne.

Many audited schools found pantry products. Fizzy drinks, drinks from powders, fatty cakes and chocolates are in great demand among children. Meanwhile, tenants are prohibited from selling the above mentioned products, says the social worker. In Astana this and all will follow with video cameras.

'Belyashi fried everything in the same oil, very old. This appealed to the Directors why they do not follow the owners of restaurants? They said that they gave those who won the tender. Then started threatening me by phone, asking not to meddle in their business,' added Marianne.

In her opinion, there is a systemic problem: dishes sometimes run by incompetent people, including former teachers, who decided to go into business. And Director answer that nothing to do with them: 'These tenants we put on top,' said the social worker of the school leaders.

In different schools meals for children from low-income families differs greatly in quality and organization, says the head of the Foundation 'Aman-saulyk', Bakhyt Tumenova.

'In some schools menu for these children more than modest, according to our calculations, the cost is even lower allocated by the Governor's office amounts. The question arises: why some schools were able to organize high-quality nutrition for children from low-income families, but not in others?' – said Bakhyt Tumenova.

Tenants are nominated from a representative who was supposed to come to the press conference. However, at the meeting with journalists, he never showed up.

Inspectors collected the results of the RAID in a single document. He sent to the office of education of Almaty. Now there is a study document, the results will be later published in the media.

In the spring of 2018 it was reported that a system of healthy eating will be introduced in all schools. To do this, in educational institutions expect the same standards to update the canteens.