• No desire to study
• No money to buy appropriate clothes and other school-related expenses
• Lack of birth certificates
Support in acquiring birth certificates should therefore help children to attend school.
Possession of immobile property: 41 percent of interviewed families (346 families) have their
own houses, while 59 percent (505 families) do not – three families did not answer this question. The majority of respondents did not experience any difficulties registering their property (81
percent of all respondents), or renting land (95 percent). A quarter of the interviewed persons,
however, faced problems when trying to access medical services.
Table 11: Problems encountered by respondents
Problems indicated
Problems registering houses
Problems renting land
Problems accessing
medical services
Legal problems
Yes
No
Not
applicable
No
indication
162
39
212
46.82% 184
4.57% 794
24.82% 636
53.18%
92.97%
74.47%
505
0
0
59.13%
0
0
3
11
6
350
40.98% 499
58.43%
0
0
5
Respondents mentioned encountering the following problems while trying to register their
house:
• lack of required documents;
• difficulties registering in their place of residence;
• houses could not be registered due to lack of Kyrgyz citizenship;
• houses were registered under somebody else’s name due to the absence of Kyrgyz citizenship;
• houses could not be privatized because they are municipal buildings;
• lack of money to pay registration fees;
• land to build a house cannot be bought due to lack of Kyrgyz citizenship;
• owner has only temporary registration in the place of residence;
• no house register available;
• lack of sales contract for house registration;
• owner is not registered in the local passport department;
• owner has difficulties getting a resident permit;
• the owner is still registered in Russia;
• wife could not register house in her own name after husband’s death;
• lack of knowledge about Kyrgyz legislation.
Concerning renting land, the following problems were indicated:
• land rent is too expensive;
• too many documents and bribes are required;
• corruption;
• foreign citizens cannot rent land;
• no permission had been given to rent land;
• only low-quality land is available;
• lack of documents.
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