Finally suitable housing for a busy family
Single mother Narangerel C. has had a harrowing childhood. She didn’t have the chance to go to school, but she learned to write. From the age of seventeen she scraped together some money working on the street by collecting discarded bottles and cans and handing them in at a recycling center.
In 2005 she got a job as a cleaning lady and was allowed to live in a storage room under the stairs of an apartment building. Five years later she got into a relationship and her first son was born. Half a year after the birth of the third son, the father left the family.
Narangerel earns too little to provide for herself and her children’s daily living; she has to live on barely 80 euros a month.
When our employee met her in Ulaanbaatar, she had been living under the stairs for fifteen years. For a mother with three sons between 1 and 11 years old, the space was much too small. Thanks to the Steppekinderen Foundation, she has been living in a spacious, traditional Mongolian nomad tent since March 15th and her children finally have a nice place to call home.
Help underprivileged children in Mongolia
Since 2006, the foundation tries to improve the situation of the children in Mongolia each year. Thanks to donations and collection campaigns, we have built 26 gers (living shelters).
Even a relatively small amount of money can do a lot, because in Mongolia, where many herders earn barely twenty euros a month, your money is worth more than five times that!
Thank you to all who support our small but important work!