Public Fund AVEP with the participation of the State Commission for Religious Affairs, the Spiritual Office of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan, regional kaziyats and beneficiaries of the project summed up the activities of the M-STAR project for 2017. Representatives of the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan also participated in this conference. At the beginning of the conference, the employees of AVEP made a presentation on the project's achievements in the short term. At the end of 2017, 140 pupils were trained in three madrassahs and 67% of graduates work in the specialties that they received under the M-STAR project. The representative of the State Commission for Religious Affairs expressed his gratitude to the project's donors and performers, and also wished that the project would later be able to cover all regions of Kyrgyzstan. Because the project has specific goals to improve the quality of life not only to students of madrassas, but also to families of students.
In his turn, the representative of the US Embassy informed the participants of the conference about the expansion of the M-STAR project to other areas of Kyrgyzstan, more specifically, beginning in 2018, the project will be implemented in Issyk-Kul, Naryn, Talas and Chui regions.