The goal of the project is to ensure equal access to quality education for children of the Pliniansky Lyceum of the Zboriv City Council, by creating safe, regular and free conditions for transporting students and teaching staff to secondary education institutions. Achieving this goal will contribute to increasing the accessibility of educational services, optimizing the network of educational institutions, compliance with state standards of safety and comfort of transportation, as well as improving the quality of the educational environment in the community. Ways to achieve the goal: purchasing a new school bus that will meet the requirements of safety, inclusiveness and current state standards. Formation and coordination of optimal transportation routes that will ensure regularity and timeliness of transportation of students from remote villages to schools. Ensuring personnel and technical readiness: appointment of persons responsible for organizing transportation; conducting regular medical examinations of drivers; monitoring the technical condition of transport. Creating conditions for optimizing under-enrolled schools, which involves high-quality and safe transfer of students to more resourceful educational institutions. Today, the Zboriv territorial community has a significant shortage of vehicles to ensure proper and safe transportation of students. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, three school buses were transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which made it impossible to fully provide transportation for schoolchildren. Currently, transportation is carried out by nine buses, some of which, due to excessive load, are already working at the limit of their operational capabilities and do not cover the needs of students, especially those living in remote settlements. Justification: Optimization of the educational network, which involves the reorganization of under-enrolled institutions, creates an additional burden on the transportation system. Accordingly, the number of children in need of regular transportation is increasing, and the community's ability to provide them remains limited. Thus, the gap between the current state and the desired target level is the lack of a sufficient number of school buses, which leads to: - irregularity of children's transportation or dependence on parents or regular transport; - congestion of existing routes; - risks to student safety; - inability to implement network optimization without additional costs; - reduced accessibility of education for children from remote villages. The purchase of a new bus will allow to fully or partially eliminate this gap, ensure the stability of the educational process and guarantee the right of children to access quality education regardless of their place of residence.

The main problem that the project is designed to solve is the lack of school transport to ensure regular and safe transportation of students from remote settlements of the community. After the loss of three buses, the transport system does not cover actual needs, which creates risks of irregular school attendance, especially for younger children and students living in small and isolated villages. The second problem is the overloading of existing buses, which are operating at the limit of technical capabilities. This increases the risk of accidents, leads to frequent breakdowns and reduces the level of transportation safety. During the period of optimization of the education network, the load will increase, which further exacerbates the problem. The third problem is the risk of worsening accessibility of education. In the absence of a sufficient number of buses, some children are forced to get to school by regular buses or private transport of their parents, which does not guarantee timeliness, regularity and safety. This can lead to missed classes, deterioration of learning outcomes and unequal opportunities for children from rural areas. The purchase of a modern school bus will ensure regular, safe, and comfortable transportation for students. This will improve attendance, guarantee equal access to education, and increase traffic safety. The community will also receive a more efficient and reliable system for organizing the educational process.