By Tsering Yanzo | Director of the Lamp of the Path
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!
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