Feed 80 Homeless People in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia

Caring for the homeless of Ulaanbaatar!

Most Kind and Generous Donors,

Please rejoice in the fact that your most kind generous support has made it possible for us to continue our activities of caring and serving the homeless of Ulaanbaatar, now into the twelfth year since first opening its doors in 2003.   

During the cold six months of winter the soup kitchen averages around 80 people per day and the cost of utilities are at its highest too. Fortunately, for all us living in Ulaanbaatar this winter 2014/2015 has been a mild winter compared to the years before. But even now, in the beginning of March 2015 we are still in the double digit minus degrees.

As a soup kitchen it is an ongoing expense requiring constant financial sustenance. As the economic state in Mongolia is in dire straits much of the funding for the soup kitchen relies on small individual donations.

For the beneficiaries, the soup kitchen is a haven of warmth and kindness for their one hot meal of the day. For most of them it would be impossible to survive without the safety net of the soup kitchen. Since the soup kitchen is very vital for their survival, the beneficiaries of the soup kitchen guard and regard the soup kitchen as their personal turf and protect it with animal like territorial instinct against homeless people new to the area. As organizers, we constantly have to talk them out of such attitude and behavior against other homeless people new to our soup kitchen.

Such is the way of life here at the Soup Kitchen!

Thanking you all always and with love and prayers,

Tsering Yanzo

Most Kind and Generous Donors,

Please rejoice in the fact that to date the soup kitchen has been serving 70 to 80 hot meals per day, five days a week to the homeless of Ulaanbaatar, not to mention the many medical outreach programs throughout the summer months.

The soup kitchen also becomes a special place of refuge for the people especially during the winter months in the coldest city of the world. Open since 2003 the beneficiaries still pour in for their one hot meal of the day.

As usual the running of the soup kitchen during the six months of the winter is always the most expensive for us as we need to spend a huge amount of money on the purchase of coal to heat the facility. Located in the poor district of Ulaanbaatar we still do not have access to the central heating system.

Besides the cost of utilities skyrocketing during the six months of the winter, we also add meat to the diet for a more hardy meal and provide traditional drinks made from a kind of treated dairy product that has a very nice warming effect on the body.

The new additional project we have taken on, as of November of 2014 is to provide day care to the children of the very underprivileged coming from single parent homes, children who are four to five year olds, so that their parent have the opportunity to make a living by freeing them up to look for a job. Having just started the project it remains to be seen how long we will be able to support this initiative. Right now we have sixteen children that we care for with with the provision of three meals a teacher and an assistant.

I hope to upload some long over due pictures and videos of the soup kitchen and the children's program as soon as I can rally the help and support for my limitations for such undertakings.

Thanking you always!