 |
Street children in Ulaanbaatar Tsog-Erdene (13) |
Tsog-Erdene was born in Ulaanbaatar. When he was 5 years old his parents died and he came with his 4
younger's brothers and sisters to live in a government children's home. Tsog-Erdene told us that this
children's home had always too little food for the children. After 2 years there were two weeks when
they had nearly nothing to eat. He ran away. On the street Tsog-Erdene has found lot of friends,
Ganbaatar and Ankhbayar are two of them. For him, Suhbat, who lives on the street too and looks
after the boys, is an older brother.
Tsog-Erdene spends the nights with Ganbaatar, Ankhbayar and Suhbat in the entrance to a
dwelling. A heater, which is in every staircase for the hard wintertime, helps the children through
the winter. Tsog-Erdene began on the street to smoke, but he drinks no alcohol.
Last year Tsog-Erdene was in a WV project, and stayed there for 3 month. But he returned
back to the street, because he wasn't happy there. There were too many rules.
One day he wants to be a policeman.
|
|
|
