Social Issue

Mongolia’s winter is one of the harshest imaginable, making Ulan Bator (Ulaanbaatar) the coldest capital city in the world. The temperature is normally -30ºC for weeks and it is not at all unusual for it to reach -40ºC. There are many people with very few resources that live crowded together in shacks or even on the landings between the stairways of buildings.

Our Response

This Project consisted of the construction of 20 gers (traditional Mongolian canvas dwellings) for 20 poor families, equipped with a kitchen with a chimney that is used as a stove, two beds, and a washbasin. The ger is the traditional dwelling of nomadic Mongolian peasants and consists of a felt tent (resistant to the area’s freezing temperatures) and an internal wooden structure to hold it up.

Expected Social Impact

The donation of these gers has not only made it possible to get these families and children away from the incredibly unhealthy conditions in which they lived but also to increase their security, hope, and optimism about the future.

This project has also helped to reactivate the local economy by purchasing the construction materials and the stove/kitchen, beds, and sink from local suppliers.

As always, this is just a drop of help in an ocean of need, but it has changed the life of Munguntuya.