Funding for children's camps' modernization will increase to 3 billion rubles in Russian Federation

In Russia, over the next three years, the funding for the program to modernize the infrastructure of children's camps will increase from 2 billion to 3 billion rubles annually. A list of more than 60 regions participating in the program has been determined. In 2024, more than 40 regions will take part in the program. The Minister of Education, Sergey Kravtsov, announced this at a meeting dedicated to the 2024 summer health campaign results and determining priorities for the next season.

Sergei Kravtsov drew attention to the fact that the issue of digitalization in the field of children's recreation is being worked out jointly with the Ministry of Digital Development. All children's camps must have their website on the Internet. This will help finalize the information portal detskootdykh.rf and fill it out with specific information for parents for each children's camp.

According to the Minister of Education, Irina Yarovaya's bill, which obliges children's camps to use a single educational program, has already been adopted in the first reading.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko emphasized that the organization of children's recreation is the responsibility of the regions and called on the subjects to interact and work productively. In 2024, the funding for the children's recreation program amounted to 83 billion rubles, which is 15 billion more than in 2023, said Dmitry Chernyshenko.

"We have already begun preparations for the 2025 summer health campaign. The key task is to develop the infrastructure of children's camps. We will attract investments, including within the framework of public-private partnerships, for construction and modernization, and we will continue to support enterprises that are ready to create conditions for recreation and health improvement of employees' children. In addition, we plan to conduct an inventory of abandoned student bases for their further restoration and adaptation for children's recreation. It is also important for us to receive feedback from the parent community to improve the work of the camps. We will solve these problems together, coordinating our efforts," said Dmitry Chernyshenko. Last summer, there were more than 39,000 children's camps of all types in Russia, which is 173 more than last year. More than 5.7 million children vacationed there, about 30% of the schoolchildren. Since last year, a program to modernize children's camps has been implemented at the behest of President Vladimir Putin. Thanks to it, providing vacations to more than 200 thousand children was also possible.

Author: Leila Aralbaeva