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Mongolia Magic Expedition Period: June 2008 (10 days) Estimated Cost: S$2200 plus |
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Poverty has increased because of the transition to a market economy in the 1990s, after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Mongolia's centrally planned economy. Privatization of industry and state farms brought high levels of unemployment. Benefits and assistance dried up. Incomes shrank, inflation devoured purchasing power and people had to bear the cost of health and education services.
Presently, one in three people in Mongolia are poor, and the number of poor people grows as the income gap widens. Poverty is becoming entrenched not only in urban centres but also in rural areas, where about half of the country’s poor people live.
Bring joy and hope to the rural poor with Robert Kee and Lutheran Church. The team is planning multiple community projects that are very much needed in the poor provinces of Outer Mongolia.
Some of these projects include:
1. Magic Show
2. Dental Care
3. Introducing the use of OHF low-cost Solar Ovens
If you are interested to join this trip, please call us at 68732955 or email hope@ohf.org.sg
This is a combined project between OHF and the Lutheran Church of Singapore. The basic intention is to bless some remote villages by providing entertainment through magic show, health care through the services of a Singapore dentist volunteer and poverty alleviation through the introduction of low cost solar ovens.
Unfortunately the cost is high as the return airfare alone is around S$1,800. If we have a stop over for a couple of nights in Seoul, Korea, the cost will be higher as we will incur hotel, meals and transportation costs.