The majority of citizens living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia are living in the ger district, a ghetto district where citizens live in a ger, which is a four walled hut like house, publicly known as the "yurt".
Our project's goal was to learn how to make a fence, in order to help build a fence. But rather than just learning about building a fence, our class learned about an average person's, and an average human's rights and life (aka Maslow's Hierarchy). In the beginning, we were studying it in class, picturing it in our minds, but later on we saw it in real life from our trip to the ger district, about how a persons' life lacks privacy, safety, fuel, belonging, and self esteem.
At 12:30 pm, set off to the ger district, missing the rest of the lessons that were held until 3:10, plus the after school activities. Along with our class, came Mrs.Wilson, and Mrs.Griffith, supervising us. Throughout the ride, we passed ger-district-related places, such as the "Tsaiz zah", the biggest wood market, where people from the ger district collect pieces of wood to burn at night, or sell. Our planner/guide, Mrs. Griffith was telling us different stories related to our project. She runs a NGO called "Flourishing the Future", which provides 38 families with food. She also runs a non profit/free school for children who live nearby. When we got to the district, we had a small tour, exploring, and hearing stories about what the Flourishing the Future had done for people, adn how fast the ger district got bigger within a few years.
After the tour we visited the family whom we were helping. From prevous visit of the grade 9's, we saw that they've dug a small hole, and also started a hole for a toilet. We finished digging the holes, it was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work. It felt good to know that I've done a good deed, and even the soreness that came afterwards felt awesome. :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
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