Children

Before they came to Anna Home all the children had a hard life. No good place to live, not enough money for heating and food, let alone for school. Some were mistreated by their parents. All of them go to school since September 2007. The care takers wrote a short history of some of them.

After the early death of their father, the sisters Dalaitogoo, 10 years old, en Monkhzul, 9, moved from the village Mardaid to a basement in Choibalsan. They lived there until their mother left for Ulaanbaatar with her third daughter, leaving them without any help. Monkhzul wants to become a cook and serve people many kinds of food.

 Khurelbaatar, 14, and Ganbaatar, 8, are brothers. Together with their mother and 12 other people they used to live in a small shed. They had not enough money for heating and eating because the only income was the children's money. Khurelbaatar went to school for a year and also collected bottles with which he sometimes earned 1000 to 1500 Tugriks a day. He now goes to the special tuition class. He wants to become director of a company.

Ganbat, 17, lost his father very young and lived with his mother, but they had no home and were forced to live with several other families. His life was very difficult, resulting in a weak health. He looks like he is 10. His mother has a hip dislocation, so she can not get work.
Ganbat never went to school, but now goes to the special tuition class with great pleasure. He dreams to study well, to get a job and to live with his mother. His brother Ganzorig lives in Anna Home since December 2008. His dramatic living conditions before that are described in the newsletter of December 15, 2008

Before I came to Anna Home I lived with my mother, two sisters and my brother in a tiny room, under the stairs of an apartment building. There was no water or toilet. My mother was jijuur, somebody who cleans the stairs and the surroundings of an apartment building. She hardly earned anything, so we could not go to school. My father had left us long before. I was one of the first children under the care of Boldsaikhan, together with my friend Bolortuya. In 2007 we came in Anna Home and from that moment my life changed totally. I started to go to school and since this year I am in the technical school of Choibalsan, learning to sew. I practice a lot on the new sewing machines in Anna Home. In two years time I will be ready with school and I then want to start a sewing workplace. I want to become a very good dressmaker. When I will be older I also want to take care of the children in Anna Home.

Byambadavaa is an orphan, his parents died. He is 13 and wants to become a police officer. 

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Ganzorig 12, has never seen his mother. He lived together with his father, homeless and unemployed, and another woman with who he has not a good relation. He lived in the "Light Centre" for five years and also with his grandmother until her death. He was not registered and so his father did not receive children's money. He now goes to the special tuition class, is very cheerful and talks a lot. He wants to become a cook.

Erdenebayar 14, lived with his mother, two sisters and an aunt, but they had no home and no work. The only income was the children's money. He is now in seventh grade in school. He wants to become a physical education teacher and football trainer. And also a lama. He wants to work and live like everybody else.

Olziibayr's parents are divorced. His mother lives in Ulaanbaatar, his father in Choibalsan. His father is unemployed and has no house. Olziibayr, 16 years, wants to become a cook.
 

The two sisters Tumentstetseg (15) and Namuuntsetseg(12) came to live in Anna Home in January of 2010. Their father died when they were babies. They were raised by their mother and a stepfather and they also lived for years in an orphanage that is now closed. Mother has now gone to prison for five years and their stepfather has no job and no home.

Uurnemekh is 9 years old when he comes to Anna Home in March 2010. His mother is in Ulaanbaatar; his father has no job and no home. He never went to school, so he cannot read or write. He dreams of becoming a company director. First to school and play football!

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