According UNESCO Report officially there 3500 street kids in the country with number rising daily. Ranging age from 3-18, about 40 % of those are homeless. They run away because of alcoholism, poverty, unemployment at home; parents abuse; homeless parents. The other 60 % work on the street to support their families leaving schools. Approximately 70 % of them are boys.
Summers are good times for most children; they sleep anywhere, in the park, on the street or in the doorways of buildings. As winter approaches and the temperature drops below 40 degree Celsius, children go underground.Hot water pipes that supply central heating to apartment complexes in the cities become home to |
thousands of Mongolia’s children who sleep, cook, eat and take shelter from the cold here. The manholes are dark, dirty and cramped. There is also constant danger that they may burst anytime and spray scalding water on the children. Living and working in such condition it is inevitable that a large number of them are undernourished, vulnerable to illness and sexually exploited.
About Mongolia
Mongolia ia the largest landlocked...
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