Mongolian street children Bashny.Net

This time, photographer Paula Bronstein Getty visited Mongolia, and the theme of her new photo essay became homeless. Street children in the country a lot, as it usually happens, they are children from disadvantaged families. Availability of vodka for the poor, at any time of the day or night doing his job, the population is slowly but surely becomes an inveterate drunkard, and the city takes on its streets useless children. But these children, at least wait in detention centers where there is hot food, water and warmth ...

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1. Boy homeless, frustrated by the fact that he was left in an orphanage in Ulaanbaatar

2. Otgonyargal (10 years old) with his mother, an alcoholic in an unheated house without electricity. The girl did not go to school and spends time outdoors, if it leads to a shelter, then a few days later, she escapes.

3. Mongolian adolescents 12-14 years are heated by the fire at the garbage dump where they work.

4. Otgonyargal with sisters Zula and Sainaa.

5. Otgonyargal sitting in the street and singing in exchange for alms from passers-by.

6. Nanda (14) napping on a table in the restaurant, the previous night, she slept on the stairs at the entrance.

7. street boys carry a police car to the shelter.

8. A police officer is trying to attract the attention of a boy who tried to hide in the chimney. Homeless children are recorded and placed in shelters where they can be up to six months while looking for their parents.