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How long do you figure he’d be safe if he was wandering the city streets ALL alone? |
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None of the children went to school because the neighborhood children made fun of them for living in a “ger” [a traditional Mongolian tent dwelling] instead of a house. The parents looked down on them, too. Even the schools didn’t want them because they didn’t do well in class. But it was so hard to focus on their lessons when they were so hungry all the time.... Dear Friend of Missionhurst, A circle of dire poverty surrounds the city of Erdenet, Mongolia, a city where 30% of the population lives in poverty. This outer circle is where the “ger” families -- the poorest of the poor -- live. Many of the ger children don’t attend school because they lack warm clothing and school supplies, cannot afford lunch fees, and don’t have a quiet place to study at home. Some drop out to find work that will help to support their families. Others are so consumed with hopelessness, that they join the growing number of children struggling for survival on the streets, where they soon become victims of violence, prostitution, drugs, sexual exploitation and other crimes. Located in the ger area of 20,000 marginalized people, My Home Kindergarten stands out as a refuge in this bleak landscape. My Home Kindergarten not only welcomes ger children, but also provides remedial reading and other support services designed to help the children succeed. This includes not only a warm lunch every day -- often the children’s only meal -- but also an after school study hall in the school library, where children can review their lessons with the help of a teacher. |
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Above: Lunch time at My Home Kinder-garten. This may be their only meal of the day. Below: A rhythm class is fun and helps to make young brains “reading ready.” |
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P.S. The new school year in Mongolia will see an influx of poor, malnourished children. Without our help to cover expenses for heating, hot lunches, social follow-up, and even warm clothing, they could end up on the city’s dangerous streets. Please send your urgently needed contribution without delay. Thanks again! |
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$ 15.34 |
can cover one day’s school expenses for 13 children... |
$ 25.96 |
can cover one day’s school expenses for 22 children... |
$ 50.74 |
can cover one day’s school expenses for 43 children... |
$100.30 |
can cover one day’s school expenses for ALL the children and a second day’s expenses for 17 of them... |
$536.90 |
can cover seven days’ expenses for ALL the children. |
Please, I beg you, help to keep them safe from harm -- and learning the skills they need for a better future -- by sending the most generous contribution you can manage. Thank you and may God bless you always.
And each additional $11.80 you send can cover one more day’s expenses for 10 children.
This year their cash shortage has reached crisis level, and Missionhurst Missionary Pierrot Kasemuana is very afraid that if the school is forced to turn children away, they may end up on the cities’ hazardous streets.
Now, having explored every other option, he is turning to us as a last resort. What he needs is $20,000 -- just $1.18 a day per child!
Today, your urgently needed gift of...
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It was so good to be home! While his mother cleaned at a local store, he and his grandmother were peddling cigarettes and chewing gum in the streets of Erdenet. He was happy to help out, but his little five-year-old legs had trouble keeping up, and he was exhausted. Now, at last, he could sit down.
Maybe his older brothers and sisters would come home soon too. Three of them had gone into the capital city of Ulaanbaatar to beg or steal from shops and markets. The two oldest ones sometimes came home covered with bruises and cuts. But they never talked about what had happened to them.
Their mother and grandmother worried about them because the city streets were so dangerous, but how could they stay home and protect them?
This includes not only a warm lunch every day -- often the children’s only meal -- but also an after school study hall in the school library, where children can review their lessons with the help of a teacher.
Social follow-up is also coordinated between teachers and the school’s social worker. The school even provides medical care and warm winter clothing.
Mothers are eager to send their children to My Home Kindergarten because -- confident that their children will be safe and happy -- they can concentrate on meeting the family’s other basic needs.
But at a time when My Home Kindergarten is needed more than ever due to a severe drought that has killed off their herds and is pushing families to leave the Mongolian steppe, the school’s resources aren’t keeping up with the growing and other necessities.
