SWAP charity foundation APG sponsors ger

April 9, 2020

Thanks to the help of APG’s SWAP charity foundation, which fully financed the living tent, the Steppenkinderen Foundation was able to build a tent for a needy family in Ulaanbaatar consisting of a single mother with four children. Until recently, the family lived in a neglected building in Ulaanbaatar, which had been declared uninhabitable; the unheated, damp and moldy house was therefore due to be demolished in April 2020, after which the family would have been left homeless.

The family consists of the single mother Buyanjargal Zoltsetseg (30), her two daughters Enkhzaya (8) and Buyanzaya (7), and two sons Enguun (3) and Irmuun (2). Buyanjargal was abandoned by her partner a year after the birth of her youngest son, a partner that never looked back at the family after that. Now, she and her children have to manage on a benefit of less than eighty euros a month. Her children are malnourished and have respiratory problems due to the dampness and mold in their home. Two years ago she herself underwent kidney surgery, but there is no money for a necessary follow-up operation.

Buyanjargal was completely perplexed when she heard that she and her four children would ‘just’ get their own living tent. In her letter of thanks, she writes that she couldn’t believe it at first and couldn’t sleep for days from excitement. After the move, her children asked again and again, with tears in their eyes, whether this beautiful tent was really theirs.