Amanda George
Amanda George is media relations officer at the British Red Cross. She has worked in communications for the voluntary sector since 2003, after giving up the exciting world of travel writing for something slightly more lucrative and equally exciting. She is in the middle of an MA in Environment and Development Studies at Kings College London.
Urban migration in Mongolia: risk or reward?
Author: Amanda George
Three little girls play house in the dirt behind their ger home on the edge of Ulaanbaatar. Although they have no toys they make do with rocks, laying out the foundation of their imaginary palace and talking in whispers among themselves.
Around them the impoverished district of Bayanzurkh sprawls haphazardly - a magnet for migrants who head to the city in search of a livelihood, or because they have no other choice.
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Author: Amanda George
Three little girls play house in the dirt behind their ger home on the edge of Ulaanbaatar. Although they have no toys they make do with rocks, laying out the foundation of their imaginary palace and talking in whispers among themselves.
Around them the impoverished district of Bayanzurkh sprawls haphazardly - a magnet for migrants who head to the city in search of a livelihood, or because they have no other choice.
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Mongolia's ex-herders struggle for survival in the city
Author: Amanda George
A small, hungry cat is tied up next to the door of this family's ger. It meows incessantly and seems eager to be free as it strains at the cord around its neck. Animals often reflect their owners.
The family who live in this small ger in a slum on the edge of Ulaanbaatar were forced away from their nomadic herding lifestyle to the capital in 2005 when all of their 500 livestock were killed in a "black dzud", the Mongolian term for a snowless period of extreme cold, with temperatures dropping to minus 50 degree Celcius.
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Author: Amanda George
A small, hungry cat is tied up next to the door of this family's ger. It meows incessantly and seems eager to be free as it strains at the cord around its neck. Animals often reflect their owners.
The family who live in this small ger in a slum on the edge of Ulaanbaatar were forced away from their nomadic herding lifestyle to the capital in 2005 when all of their 500 livestock were killed in a "black dzud", the Mongolian term for a snowless period of extreme cold, with temperatures dropping to minus 50 degree Celcius.
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