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FLOODS IN MONGOLIA! 20,000 people—2,975 poor Mongolian families—lost their homes and most of their posses-sions in last summer’s devastating flood. The homeless must have shelter before -30° winter temperatures return. The water isn’t safe to drink, and the rise in dysentery and other water borne diseases—especially among children—is alarming. The need for assistance is urgent. But local charities have run out of funds.... |
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Flood waters in the urban areas of the Bayanzurkh and Songino Khairkhan Districts of Ulaanbaatar City were deep enough to reach a car’s door handles. |
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(Above) Families struggle to salvage a few meager possessions from their flooded homes. (Below) Soaked bedding and clothing is hung out to dry. |
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$1,412 in transportation costs from the Ger supplier nearly 435 miles away; $383.83 per person for the wells, including $706 for soil analyses to determine where to locate them. Yet even the bare bones cost of just $1,942.10 per family is beyond the reach of this grieving, destitute community. So, having only four warm months to work with and nowhere else to turn, Fr. Pierrot has made a frantic appeal for our help. And now we must turn to you. Your contribution of $15, $25, $50, $100, $500 -- or more, if possible -- will help to keep 20 poor, heart-broken mothers, grandmothers, and children healthy and safe by giving them access to clean drinking water and shelter from the breathtaking cold that sweeps across Mongolia’s steppes each winter. Equally important, you will be delivering a message of hope and encouragement that will warm their hearts. By serving as an instrument of God’s love, you will be assuring them that they are not alone in their suffering...that YOU care. Please, we beg you, open your heart to their plight and rush the most generous contribution you can manage today. |
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P.S. There’s not a moment to lose! The lives of these poor, displaced children, grandmothers, mothers, widows, and old men are in our hands. Two new wells and 20 new Gers (traditional homes) must be finished before winter arrives with its roaring wind and -30° temperatures. Please rush your urgently needed contribution without delay. Thanks again! |
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* URGENT! * URGENT! * URGENT! * URGENT! * * URGENT! * URGENT! *
Dear Friend of Missionhurst:
Displaced flood victims were provided with dry land in a remote area by the government, but received no other help.
In a heroic effort, local charities managed to relocate 537 families in three days and supplied them with water, food, clothes, and candles.
But these families, who are far from home with little hope of ever returning, have no sanita-tion system...no clean water... no electricity...no financial support.
Forced by lack funds to make hard decisions, relief efforts were focused where the need was greatest. That meant that homeless families facing winter temperatures below -30° without shelter were crowded into the few Gers that were available.
“But,” said Missionhurst missionary Fr. Pierrot Kasemuana, writing from the Ulaanbaatar and Gobi-Altai Pro-vince, where he has been work-ing for months to relieve the suffering of flood victims, “this could not be a long term solution. Twenty families -- eight grandmothers and their grandchildren, seven single mothers and their children, three widows, and two old men -- need homes of their own.”
So now the push is on to purchase and assemble 20 more Gers and to dig two deep wells before frigid winds and winter temperatures return and freeze the ground rock-hard, bringing all work to a halt.
The cost of these urgently needed projects comes to $38,842 -- $844.39 per person -- for the Gers, including
