Hi, I'm Shintsetseg
I'm a girl, 12 years old and live in Mongolia.
The mother is a widow raising three children. She is unemployed and couldn't provide her children with food and other essential needs. She came to us for support. We enrolled her child Shintsetseg in the program.
Shintsetseg had no health issues.
The family lives below the poverty line. Without a job, she goes out in the street to collect bottles, cans, carton boxes and other recyclable items from the trash bins. Her husband died from an accident. The only income she receives is the child support fund from the government which is $9 per month. Sometimes, she is forced to go begging for food from neighbors. The district Social Services Department told her that to minimize her burden they can send her children to the state orphanage temporarily but the mother declined the offer.