DUSHANBE, September 5, Asia-Plus -- Today morning, Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for opening of the first building of a new orphanage for disabled children “Chorbogh” in the Varzob district, presidential press service reported.  

Telling an inaugurating ceremony, President Rahmonov noted that for keeping orphan and disabled children the government monthly provides 405 Somonis for each child.   

The head of state ordered all ministries and organizations to take under their patronage all centers for disabled people and provide financial assistance to them on the threshold of upcoming holidays.   

The first building of the orphanage is a home for 125 disabled children.  President Rahmonov handed over presents to them.  The orphanage “Chorbogh” in Varzob will include four buildings to accommodate 450 disabled children from all regions of the country.   

The new orphanage “Chorbogh” was constructed after the orphanage “Chorbogh” in Dushanbe was destroyed by blaze in January this year.  Thirteen children died as a blaze swept through an orphanage in the center of Dushanbe.  We will recall that a fire broke out in the orphanage “Chorbogh” for children with mental disabilities in the center of Dushanbe on the night of January 7-8.  The orphanage, a wooden structure built in the 1934, was home to more than 90 disabled children, many of whom could not move by themselves.  Thirteen children were killed in the fire and another seventy-nine children were evacuated.