Save the Children
About our Charity: Save the Children
Save the Children
We're the world's independent children's charity. We're outraged that millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We're working flat out to get every child their rights and we're determined to make further, faster changes. How many? How fast? It's up to you.
Charity Registration No England and Wales (213890) Scotland (SC039570
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'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... Support the invaluable work of Save the Children by supporting Team50*North: London to Ulaan Baatar ... and back ... in a Ford Capri !?! How hard can it be??? Save the Children is the worlds' largest independent organisation for children. Helping children in over 110 countries, Save the Children does great work in Mongolia and elsewhere, wherever there is a need. Fighting for children who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence, Save the Children operates without fear or prejudice. In the Mongol capital, street children are particularly vunerable. They spend the harsh winters (sometimes as cold as -50 degrees C) under the streets, surviving by staying close to the steam pipes that supply the heating of apartment blocks and buildings. Save the Children provide the education and protection that they need. You may be wondering how these children ended up in this dire situation and what happened to their families. Exceptionally harsh winters in 2001 and 2002 destroyed vast herds of livestock; the animals that are the be all and end all of nomadic existence. Deprived of an income and means to live by natural disaster, the nomadic rural families moved to the city in search of work and food ... a nomadic people forced into an alien urban environment. It could only end in tears, and in tears it certainly, and predictably, did. Work was not found, accommodation was not available, families were forced into the streets. The weak died; families got lost and separated and abandoned to the mercy of those of us better equipped to help .... So are you going to help? To support Save the Children in helping to sort this natural, human tragedy out, simply sponsor Team50*North. It's really easy to do by simply clicking the link to our Just Giving page. Your donation will go direct to Save the Children. 
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