Save the Children

Today, every third child in Mongolia is poor. Thousands of children work to support their families, competing with adults for petty work. Thousands of street children are the result of homelessness and family breakdown.

Save the Children in Mongolia

We started working in Mongolia in 1994. Our projects and the areas we cover expanded rapidly in response to the urgent needs of many vulnerable children. Since then we've built up our expertise and developed strong and positive relationships with Mongolia's education and social welfare agencies.

We're helping children get a good education

Two out of every three Mongolian children miss out on a preschool education. We're providing teachers, parents and children with training materials and books. Last year we helped to improve the quality of education for 12,125 pre- and primary school children by training 485 preschool teachers in child-centred teaching methods.

Last year, we enabled 2,593 poor, nomadic, minority ethnic and disabled children to go to pre- and primary school by setting up kindergartens and providing mobile teachers. Working with a local partner, we provided direct services for 709 disabled children. And more than 2,000 disabled children benefited from training and information we gave to their parents and carers.

We're protecting children from harm

Mongolia's harsh economic climate is forcing more and more children into homelessness and work to survive. We're working to protect these children, especially those vulnerable to abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect.

We provided social work, family reunification, recreation and counselling services for 4,500 children last year. We also provided physiotherapy, massage, play and exercises for 48 disabled children and their families.

We're helping children have their voices heard

Children are involved in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating our activities, particularly our community-based centres. They were key partners in our advocacy campaign to develop a national child protection system. Three children took part in a TV debate, where they expressed the view that children should be involved in decisions that affect their lives.

More information can be found at http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/965.htm