Chisinau summer camps expect more than 26 thousand children

This summer, more than 6,000 children from Chisinau will attend day camps during their vacation, and another 20,000 will spend summer holidays in sleepaway camps outside the city. According to a press release from the City Hall, 60 day camps which can accommodate a total of 5,000 at a time have opened in all the districts of the municipality. In suburbs, there are 12 day camps with a capacity of more than one thousand places. The full cost of a 15-day stay in a in such a camp is 400 lei, though parents will pay only 80 lei, or 20% of the cost. Fees for sleepaway camps located outside the city range from 1000 to 1300 lei, and parents will have to pay only 20 percent in this case, too. According to the Education, Youth and Sports General Division, 25 percent of the tickets will be given free of charge to the children from underprivileged families. According to the same source, the rest of children in such camps this year require a sum of 21.9 million lei from city coffers, while the municipal budget earmarked for this purpose only 18.5 million.