Is Ulanbataar, Mongolia, still home to very many homeless children, and why?
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I can't give you a completely up to date answer; however, I was there three years ago, traveling with people who had been there a few years before that.  According to my friends, there were FAR fewer homeless children than they had seen during their last visit.  It sounded like the government had been doing a good job getting the children into orphanages and such.  \nWe also visited an orphanage while we were there.  It was full of kids, and they looked happy and healthy, for the most part. \nThere were still kids on the street, but they were far fewer than there are in, say, India.  And I don't think some of them could have been too poorly off - I once offered a homeless child some bread (fresh, wrapped)...which he refused - he wanted money!  \n\nAs for how they come to be homeless...well, how do kids end up on the streets anywhere?  A bad family situation, an accident...I'm sure they all have a sad story. \nI can't tell you how they survive the winter, either...they must be able to find somewhere warm to go.  And some of them are probably very poor, but not homeless.  \nBut I do think that the situation is probably still improving there...at least, I hope it is!
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I adopted a child through Children International from the Phillipines in the name of my almost 4 year old niece. It betters my life doubly by giving the opportunity of healthcare and education to an impoverished little girl halfway around the world, but also gives the gift of awareness and education to a very privileged little girl right here who needs to understand how fortunate she is and how little it takes to help those who aren't.
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his real name was Temujin, and he was born the oldest some of a lower class tribal Chieftain in Mongolia.  When young Temujin was 9-12, his father was murdered and, being the oldest child, was now made into the new Chieftain of the Kiyad and a nöker (vassal) of Ong Khan of the Kerait tribe.  \n\nThe rest, is history.
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There are many children around the world that need help. Until there is a organization to help all countries, there will be nothing but sadness.
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I think about 65%  I think that it's not the highest percentage because there are people in China jumping off building because they can't find a job even with a high education.  but there also are a lot of homeless there so I really don't know
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I do not know if we have lost sight of it, or if the mainstream media simply delights in reporting it because after all, bad news sells better than good news.\n\nTalk to your neighbors and friends, they are probably doing all right. Watch CNN and you will think the sky is falling everyday.\n\nHomeless in America? If you can't get it together here, where are you going to go? There are homeless in other countries whose dream is to someday be homeless in America.-Sam Kinison
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I don't know about 98% of the world problems (my vote for the biggest problem-causer in the world would have to be poverty, because it correlates with so many other problems including child abuse, crime, illness, early death, lack of education opportunities, unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, etc.).\n\nHowever, the short- and long-term effect of abuse on individuals is devastating, particularly if they do not recieve support or counselling.  At it's most basic level, abuse is a total betrayal of the child by the abuser.  It is what Marsha Linehan called the ultimate invalidating environment.  The legacy of abuse includes guilt, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, PTSD, emotional and behavioral problems, problems in school, and a danger of becoming an abuser themselves.  \n\nThese are problems that society deals with when the abused child grows up.\n\nNow the majority of abused children do grow up to be productive members of society, which just goes to show the amazing resiliency of the human spirit.  Dave Pelzer, who wrote "A Child Called It (worth reading)" is one of the more famous examples.\n\nHowever, the majority of the world's monsters were themselves abused, often horribly, as children.  There is certainly a high correlation with abusive childhoods in the backgrounds of serial killers.  Only a small minority or abused children become monsters, but a high percentage of monsters were abused as children.  A percentage of those who abuse their children were themselves abused as children.\n\nIt would not surprise me if at all if Saddam Hussein was abused as a child.  Most monsters are made, not born.
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Child Bride\nMarried at the age of four, an Afghan girl was subjected to years of beatings and torture, finally escaping to discover that within all the world's cruelty, there is also some kindness.\nBy Kevin Sites, Mon Mar 20, 6:51 PM ET\nEmail Story IM Story\n\nMarried at the age of four, an Afghan girl was subjected to years of beatings and torture, finally escaping to discover that within all the world's cruelty, there is also some kindness. \nGlobal Giving\nConnects donors directly to development projects.\nWomen for Afghan Women\nRuns a sponsor campaign for Afghan orphans.\nSave the Children\nBolsters health and education for Afghan children and their families.\n\nKABUL,\nAfghanistan - Eleven-year old Gulsoma lay in a heap on the ground in front of her father-in-law. He told her that if she didn't find a missing watch by the next morning he would kill her. He almost had already.\n\nEnraged about the missing watch, Gulsoma's father-in-law had beaten her repeatedly with a stick. She was bleeding from wounds all over her body and her right arm and right foot had been broken.\n\nShe knew at that moment that if she didn't get away, he would make good on his promise to kill her.\n* * *\n\nWhen I meet her at the Ministry of Women's Affairs I'm surprised that the little girl, now 12, is the same one that had endured such horrible suffering. She is wearing a red baseball cap and an orange scarf. She has beautiful brown eyes and a full and animated smile. She takes one of my hands in both of hers and greets me warmly, without any hint of shyness.\n\n"She looks healthy," says Haroon, my friend and translator. I nod. But she looks older than her years, we both agree. In orphanages — first in Kandahar, then in Kabul — she has had a year to recover from a lifetime's worth of unimaginable imprisonment, deprivation and torture.\n\nIn one of the ministry's offices she sits in a straight-backed wooden chair and tells us the story of her life so far. She is stoic for the most part, pausing only a few times to wipe her eyes and nose with her scarf.\n\nHer story begins in the village of Mullah Allam Akhound, near Kandahar.\n\n"When I was three years old my father died, and after a year my mother married again, but her second husband didn't want me," says Gulsoma. "So my mother gave me away in a promise of marriage to our neighbor's oldest son, who was thirty."\n\n"They had a ceremony in which I was placed on a horse [which is traditional in Afghanistan] and given to the man."\n\nBecause she was still a child, the marriage was not expected to be sexually consummated. But within a year, Gulsoma learned that so much else would be required of her that she would become a virtual slave in the household.\n\nAt the age of five, she was forced to take care of not only her "husband" but also his parents and all 12 of their other children as well.\n\nThough nearly the entire family participated in the abuse, her father-in-law, she says, was the cruelest.\n\n"My father-in-law asked me to do everything — laundry, the household chores — and the only time I was able to sleep in the house was when they had guests over," she says. "Other than that I would have to sleep outside on a piece of carpet without even any blankets. In the summer it was okay. But in the winter a neighbor would come over and give me a blanket, and sometimes some food."\n\nWhen she couldn't keep up with the workload, Gulsoma says, she was beaten constantly.\n\nGulsoma's scars\n\n"They beat me with electric wires," she says, "mostly on the legs. My father-in-law told his other children to do it that way so the injuries would be hidden. He said to them, 'break her bones, but don't hit her on the face.'"\n\nThere were even times when the family's abuse of Gulsoma transcended the bounds of the most wanton, sadistic cruelty, as
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In many of the countries they are not distributing the aid AT ALL.  In some they are and those economies tend to outperform the other ones over the long term.
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Sometime in the 70's or 80's, they kicked a whole bunch (we're talking oodles) of people out of mental hospitals.  They had nowhere to go except on the streets.  They're still there.  \n\nAlso, it's hard to get by these days!  It takes a lot to make a living.  Sometimes illnesses or other issues have an impact on our finances.  Not all homeless people are street beggars.  There are a great many who have jobs, live in cars/shelters and try to make ends meet.  Children, too.\n\nThis might be the land of opportunity, but it's really hard to get by when you're down on your luck and have few resources to help you.
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Yes  Iknow about invisible children..it is an awesome organization that is bringin attention to the plight of the children of the Acholi tribe in northern Uganda..there is a rebel leader named Kony who believes he was sent by Jesus to carry out this "mission"  which is killing and raping women and men and abducting their children and turning them into children soldiers.  It's horrible and supporting this organization is awesome.  My fiance is from Uganda and he has gone into northern Uganda under armed guards of course, but I have forbid him to go there anymore.  Please support invisible children in any way you can.
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im sure if theyd asked they wont be turned away. maybe not all religious buildings have the appropriate amenities to be a suitable shelter. why arent government buildings or public buildings shelter for the homeless?
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It is known that when China introduced 'one child families' 400 million birth have been avoided. So i think that they are a passive culture at the moment. But like any govenment, it changes and who knows, a maniac ruler may come along and dicide to do what Hitler tried sixty years ago. Every dog has it's day i belive.
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it's where the bums, drunks and other homeless live and hangout. usually the street and really shabby cheap apartments. it's not slums. it where the least desired of society live or try to live. slums are just bad places. if you say skidrow you're talking about the kind of people that live there as well.
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40,000 orphans are running from abduction - most having already seen their parents killed, others not knowing if they have any other family alive.\n\n"Their deaths are not quick--a child killed by a single rebel bullet is a rarity. If one child attempts to escape, the rebels force the other abducted children to kill the would-be escapee, usually with clubs or machetes. Any child who refuses to participate in the killing may also be beaten or killed."\n\n"It is hard to know how many children have been abducted by the rebels. Most estimates suggest that three to five thousand children have escaped from captivity during the past two years. UNICEF estimates that an equal number of children remain in captivity, and an unknown number are dead."\n\n"Escape is rarely the end of an abducted child's ordeal, for those children who escape often find that they have nowhere to go. Their villages may have been destroyed by the rebels; their parents may have been killed or may have fled the countryside for the comparative safety of the towns."\n\nThe first link below contains many personal stories from the children.
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They live in Tashkent, the capital city. Over 1.9 million people live there.
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First, child labor is a fact of life, as it means the difference between hunger and food. If the parents are affluent enough, the children need not work but that requires the parents being able to earn sufficient to support the family. All parents want their children to be educated and prosper, but the hard reality is that much of the world lives at poverty or border-line poverty and the kids have to pitch in. I live in Asia and child-labor is common, but it is not the sweat-shops where illegals are literally chained to their jobs. It is more of a family effort to keep the wolves from the door. One boy I know rises at 5 am and plucks chickens until 8 am then hurries home to get ready for school...and gets no pay, but his family has managed in this way to send two others to the university. His turn will come because of the family effort and child labor...he is 11 years old. They are paid about 20 cents US for each chicken and universities are not cheap. Do-gooder attitudes are fine if you have money. As we say in China, 'No money, No talk'. Even aged grandfathers and grandmothers take part in making ends meet. Middle-class morality is a luxury that few of the third world countries can afford.