In late August, His Excellency Nursultan Nizar Bayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, inaugurated the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan School in the capital, Astana, in an official ceremony and in the midst of a large crowd of people from the Kazakh capital.The ceremony was attended by His Excellency Mohammed Haji Al Khoury, Director General of the Khalifa Foundation for Humanitarian Works, a number of officials in the Foundation, His Excellency Yirlan Kanji Kalibic, Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan, Asit Issikishov, Governor of the city of Astana, those in charge of the project and a number of senior Kazakhs.The Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed School in Astana, which cost 40 million dirhams, is part of charitable and humanitarian projects implemented by the Khalifa Foundation for Humanitarian Work in all parts of Kazakhstan.The land area of ​​the project is 37 thousand square meters, or approximately four hectares, while the building area is 14,313 square meters, and it was built on 4 floors, with the capacity of the school reaching 1,200 students.The school includes about 2,400 male and female students and includes all academic levels "elementary - preparatory - secondary". They are distributed over 58 academic and vocational classes such as sewing, carpentry and cooking, and they benefit from huge sports facilities that include two halls for exercise, indoor and outdoor playgrounds for each of the football, basket, volleyball, hand and tennis in addition to To a physical training area, it also includes service facilities, including a dining hall with a capacity of 300 seats that provides breakfast and lunch for free, in addition to a conference room, a theater with a capacity of 300 seats, an information center, a reading center, a public library and a medical clinic.