Ms. Valentina Turabekova, special assistant to the commander, speaks with Col. Blaine Holt, Transit Center director; Director of Imarat Story Construction Project Mr. Beishembek Imanaliev; and Olga Voroshikhina, the Birdik Village School principal, after the graduation ceremony for children of the Birdik Village School, May 25, 2010. Airmen from the Transit Center were invited to the graduation ceremony to help celebrate the end of the first school year since the completion of a recent reconstruction project. The project, which cost about $540,000, was funded by the Air Force and volunteer efforts from Airmen at the Transit Center at Manas. They celebrated the ribbon cutting Sept. 1, 2009.