2012 November

On November 3 2007 Anna Home was officially opened and so we now celebrated its fifth anniversary.

5 YEARS ANNA HOME

The children prepared a beautiful performance with songs, sketches and dance. The pictures hopefully will give you a good impression, now that you were not able to attend yourself.
On behalf of you all I of course brought some presents: an outside poster with a picture of themselves is now decorating the house. Two football goals were welded and the carpenter is still working on a big swing, of which we hopefully will be able to show a picture soon.

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THE CHILDREN

I found 25 happy children, although mumps was very present.

We made a little trip to the river Kherlen, that was not quite frozen yet.

BUDGET

Together with the director and the Mongolian board we made the budget for 2013. Because of the mining Mongolia is moving ahead in the last two years. The economy increased with 17%, inflation now is 15% and the salaries of some professions grew recently 90% (!). a beginning doctor in the hospital, for example, now earns 500.000 Tugriks per month, which corresponds with € 250.
The salaries of the seven people working in Anna Home can’t stay behind. They will increase next year with on average around 30%. Where the total budget in 2011 was 55 million Tugriks and in 2012 58 million, next year i twill be 68 million, nearly € 38.000.
But also the Mongolian government is moving a little: from October 2012 on every child receives 20.000 Tugrik per month (€ 10) on an own bank account. The Mongolian board agrees with me that this money should go to Anna Home, since it is meant for raising the child. However, some children do have one or two parents who also want that money, because they live in horrible poverty. The board has promised this year to make a plan about this subject. In total it is nearly 10% of the total budget.

KITCHEN

The renovation of the kitchen has moved a step forward again. The wooden counter has now been covered with stainless steel. The man on the photo appeared to be an excellent professional who delivered a good result without tools worth mentioning. This week he will also renew the stove and make an air refreshing system. This summer the floor will hopefully follow, which is now covered with linoleum that has to be renewed three times a year and will be replaced with tiles.
You realise that we are on Facebook? Under the name of Anna Home.  There you will also find one of the songs in the small film dated November 3.
Boldsaikhan will regularly put photos on this page, so maybe it is worthwhile to follow it.
Maarten