"Almost 127 thousand children of the Kharkov region are already covered in health and recreation," writes the website of HOGA.

This was reported by Oksana Kolodideva, head of the sector for the organization of health improvement for children of the Department of Youth and Sports of the KhOGA.

"During the period from June to July, 711 recreation centers operated in the Kharkov region, in which there were more than 83,000 children (697 camps with day stay, 13 labor camps and 1 campground). 710 establishments have already completed their activities, one tent city is working, "Oksana Kolodideva.

In addition, the health and recreation of children carried out 25 stationary camps in the Kharkov region, in which almost 8.5 thousand children had already rested (in t. 1980 children - at the expense of the regional budget).

Out of the region, 3065 children were sent for state and regional budget funds.

"In total, according to operational data, recovery and rest are covered almost 127 thousand children, which is 55.5% of the planned number," Oksana Kolodideva said.. - Out of the total number of health improvement and recreation in socially unprotected categories, more than 67,000 children are covered, which is 42% of the plan ".

In the Department of Youth and Sports of the HOGA reported that in order to improve the children of preferential categories from the regional budget in 2018 allocated 51 million 342 thousand. UAH. So, 7550 trips to sanatoriums and camps on the Black Sea coast (Odessa region), the coast of the Sea of ??Azov (Zaporozhye region), Kharkiv region, mountainous areas of the Ukrainian Carpathians.

Currently, funds of the regional budget for recovery both in other regions and in the camps in the Kharkiv region, 4240 children of preferential categories.

"Since September 1, the process of improving children is not complete. They will rest in the Ukrainian Carpathians and on the Black Sea coast, "said Oksana Kolodideva.

reference. The following persons have the right to recover for budget funds: orphans and children deprived of parental care, children with disabilities, children whose parents died in the area of ??environmental protection, children of environmentalists, children of the victims of mass protest actions, children of internally displaced persons, children from families with many children, children from low-income families, children who have suffered as a result of the Chernobyl accident, children whose parents died in the course of their duties or from an accident at work, children who are children enrolled in the services of children's affairs as those who are in difficult life circumstances, the native children of parents-educators and foster parents who live in the same family-type children's home or in the same family, talented and creatively gifted children, children of workers of agro-industrial complex and social sphere of the village.