73% of children in Uzbekistan had to walk for miles to get to the nearest kindergarten.

Preschoolers and their parents had to devote so much time traveling to and from kindergarten.

This forced parents to give up their jobs to take care of their children at home.

The construction of kindergartens solved the problem in regional centers and cities but the hard-to-reach villages remained to be a challenge. It was not economically feasible to construct a kindergarten for only a small population because of the high maintenance cost.

And the Ministry of Pre-school Education came up with the strategic idea — since kids can’t go to kindergarten, kindergarten will come to them itself.

The MPE decided to convert buses into mobile kindergartens to provide more space and opportunities for education at a fraction of the cost compared to building physical kindergartens.

The MPE addressed the challenge of delivering pre-school education to hard-to-reach places with specially built mobile kindergartens, which provide more space and opportunities for education at a fraction of the cost compared to building physical kindergartens.