Feed 80 Homeless People in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia

The purpose of this project is to support the Lamp of the Path NGO Soup Kitchen to feed 80 homeless people in Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.

Thanks to your donations people receive hot meals 5 days a week. Those people are poor, homeless or/and sick. Moreover, locals are involved in the maintenance of the Soup Kitchen The community and local authorities are very supportive for the work of this NGO. However, one of the results of this report is that the organization needs more funds to carry the project until the end of the year as the support of Friends of Humanity is projected to last only 5 months.

Life in Mongolia can be very hard, but FPMT has been of great benefit for a lot of people – benefit for the body and benefit for the mind. 

Thanks to your donations homeless people are still having a worm soup and bread rolls for dinner.

We thank you very much and encourage you to keep donate for this project.

Make a donation to make someone happy in this Christmas season.

Friends of Humanity Team.

The spring and the summer has been a very busy period of fixing all external fixtures of windows, walls, gates and the face lift of painting these areas as well to further preserve them. The extreme winters of Mongolia, with Ulaanbaatar earmarked as one of the coldest city of this world is very hard on any property.

Before we can take a break from these activities, the season is upon us to make the yearly preparations of the heating system for this winter. It is my hope and prayer that it will not be as extreme as the last one, which many of us have come to identiy as one of the coldest winters.

The central heating system of the city of Ulaanbaatar is already on but our soup kitchen located on the outskirts of the city and in the much poorer districts, lacks the access to the central heating system. We have to make provisions for our own heating and so we are abiding a time for it to get colder before we incur the costs of heating.

The spring time labour of planting our own vegetable garden with some of the more expensive varieties of vegetables has saved us from purchasing a huge amount of vegetables and also to relish in the taste of a variety of vegetables that are usually beyond our budget. The planting of the traditional medicinal tree of Sea Buckthorn on the property has been a source of great satisfaction and pride. It will be a few years before we get to pick any berries because of the very short growing season that prevails Mongolia.

By the end of August, 2013 we have served over 12,250 hot meals. The meals served during the spring and the summer have been all vegetarian, except on those occassions when people have donated meat specially for the soup kitchen.

The month of August 2013 also oversaw a huge preventive medical check-up for the homeless beneficiaries of the Soup Kitchen. This was done by the Enerel Hospital.

• 33 of these people underwent biochemical test for liver function and joint ailment diagnostics.
• Finger stick blood testing was performed and
• Ultra-sound scan of internal organs and women's reproductive organs was done on 26 people.

The check-up revealed the following:

• Chronic kidney conditions found in 20 persons
• Cardiovascular conditions in 24 persons
• Digestive tract conditions in 33 persons
• Psychiatric or nervous system conditions in 25 persons
• Joints ailments in 10 persons
• Eye diseases in 2 persons
• STIs (sexually transmitted infections) in 9 persons
• Systemic disorders of 2 and more organs in 23 persons

Of these people 15 were prescribed hospitalization, 9 of them have been hospitalized, 6 are waiting due to Enerel Hospital's carrying capacity.

In the month of August the Soup Kitchen was blessed by the visit of Lama Zopa Rinpoche who is not only our major donar but also instrumental for the inception and inspiration of the soup kitchen in Mongolia. Rinpoche has left us with instructions for further improvements in the way we do things at the soup kitchen, which we hope to implement in the near future.