With the unused village school buildings, village life centers project, kindergarten, primary school, course center, library; It is transformed into areas where educational and social activities such as youth camps will be held, with workshops serving in different fields such as mathematics, nature, science and design. Village life centers are offered to students and villagers.
With the project realized in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, accessible living spaces will be created. Within the scope of the project, the first application was made in Samsun. Stating that the process started with the village life center, which was reintroduced to education under the name of “Alanlı Recep Asal Mathematics and Nature School”, Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer announced that living centers that will be the heart of villages are being built all over Turkey.
“Our aim here is to be able to actively use the unused schools in our villages in some way as an educational institution or in response to different needs.” Özer said, first of all, he underlined that a regulation change was made so that village primary schools could be opened regardless of the number of students. Minister Mahmut Özer reminded that the criterion for opening a kindergarten in villages was reduced to 10, and said that with this change, 5 thousand children in the villages met with kindergartens.
Özer shared the following information on the transformation of unused village school buildings into village life centers: “If it cannot be used as a kindergarten or primary school, it can be used as a public education center, and especially by conducting all kinds of education that our villagers need, especially about agriculture and animal husbandry, in coordination with our Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. We're trying to get it to where it's at. At the same time, if there is no need for a public education center, we continue to work on transforming it into a youth camp depending on the situation and physical conditions of the village, a place where our children will spend time in the youth camp and breathe the village environment.”
Explaining that the project was received with great enthusiasm in all provinces, districts and villages, Özer said, “Our provinces have now started to actively participate in this process of bringing schools back to life in their own villages. Hopefully, until the 2022-2023 academic year begins, we, as the ministry, will closely follow the process of opening village schools in the field and actively putting them into service of our citizens, together with all our colleagues.” he said.
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