Deployed Airmen Teach English to Kyrgyzstan Kids [Image 139 of 225]

MANAS AIR BASE, KYRGYZSTAN

03.17.2006

Photo by Lance Cheung 

United States Air Forces Central     

After providing English tutoring for 50 students at Lyceum vocational school, the services students treated the airmen to the pasteries they made for them. Donations to the school were made later in the visit. The in-residence vocational school is home for more than 200 local boys and girls, ages 14-18. Here, they are taught the basics in high demand skills for the Bishkek region. The training in tailoring, mechanics, agriculture and services allow the children, who in most cases were abandoned, orphaned or simply poor; a better opportunity to gain employment in the local economy. Manas Air Base Outreach Society is a non-profit organization established at Manas Air Base in December 2003. Lyceum is one of its several focus groups that have donated more than 17,000 man-hours, $65,000 and 40,000 pounds of donations to heart operations, heating fuel, construction projects, elderly stipends, trips, and daily administration costs. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Lance Cheung)

• Date Taken: 03.17.2006
• Date Posted: 04.11.2006 14:34
• Photo ID: 18092
• Resolution: 4288x2848
• Size: 5.68 MB
• Location: MANAS AIR BASE, KG