The work to reconstruct educational facilities, school buildings and kindergartens progresses rapidly in all earthquake-hit areas, along with construction of the new homes for the affected families.

Prime Minister Edi Rama today visited the town of Kruja to closely inspect work to construct the new school and kindergarten in Larushk. The educational facility, together with 13 other school buildings and kindergartens being built in the area of Kruja will complete soon and they are all designed to provide bigger, better and safer educational spaces, meeting standards of educational facilities in EU member states.

“This is ‘Hajdar Hoxha’ school in the village of Larushk, Municipality of Kruja, part of the procurements under the third phase of the reconstruction program. Construction of the new school began less than a month ago. Kruja Mayor has closely inspected the construction work along with the supervisors and operators,” the Reconstruction Minister Arben Ahmetaj said.

The school has 16 classrooms, with three of them for the kindergarten, and it will accommodate around 320 pupils.  Construction work is progressing rapidly. The kindergarten classrooms will accommodate 45 kids. The walls construction has already completed and work on the interior of the school building is underway. We expect to complete construction work by mid-January,” the construction project manager said while explaining project details.

Prime Minister Rama praised the project implementation standards and encouraged the builder to complete construction as soon as possible.

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PM Rama inspected again the ongoing work to construct the new residential neighbourhood in Fushe – Kruje, where work is progressing rapidly to complete construction of the single-family homes first. A total of 128 individual homes will be built for the families that became homeless on the tragic night of November 26 last year.

The connecting infrastructure is heading towards completion, while work is also well underway to build the new houses. “A total of 128 individual houses will be built here, where foundation work has completed for 40 homes and wall construction is already underway for 12 more houses. In the meantime, we plan to launch procurement procedures for construction of apartment buildings with the Albanian Development Fund next week,” Minister Ahmetaj said.

Some 15 apartment buildings will be constructed for the quake-affected families on the 10-ha site. New schools, health care centre, public service offices, green areas and a modern market for the locally grown produce will be all part of the new residential neighbourhood, which will radically improve the quality of life of the families due to reside here.