Feed 80 Homeless People in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia

Since 2004, Lamp of the Path has operated a Community Centre in Ulaanbaatar, which provides poor and homeless individuals with hot nutritious meals 5 days a week, as well as free clothing and medical assistance.

In 2013, Friends of Humanity continued to support the soup kitchen which has helped save many lives of people living in excruciatingly cold conditions and improved the nutritional status of many children entering school. 

They continue to offer food to homeless and poor people 5 days a week as they have since the beginning of the project. For these people this is the one hot meal a day they are able to receive in extreme weather conditions which was minus 33 Celsius when the accompanying photos were taken. Also in conjunction with the hot meal they are able to use the other services the Community Centre offers including free medical attention and free clothing and foot wear.

Solo mothers have a very difficult time in Mongolia especially if there is no family support. But even with providing a daily meal it is often not enough to sustain milk production for nursing mothers. These mothers and babies are monitored by the Health Clinic, which is in the same building and when required mothers receive extra rations and often food to take home. Despite this it often happens that for nutritional reasons the mother’s milk will dry up. When this happens the soup kitchen provides supplementary food for the child.

This project is well supported by you and we wanted to thank you very much for your donations in 2013 and early 2014.

Friends of Humanity team.