From our team in Mongolia:
“I knew that something had to happen that day when my mom led me out of the police station, her eyes filled with tears. Out for revenge, I’ve nearby beaten the man, who dragged me by my hair into a shelter and battered me, to death with a stone ...
Hatred was running my life since I ran away from home. At night I slept in the underground heating pipe system, during the day I stole charcoal from railway wagons and hang out at the market, where my mom sold the charcoal I had stolen. Under no circumstances was I willing to go back home – there was no love at home, only quarrels. My big dream was to go to school like all the other children. But my life was different, and there was probably no way it would change. So I took to the bottle at the age of 12 ...
None of my friends helped me, when I was caught by the police. Only my mom came and got me out. I could see the despair of not being able to give us what we needed in her watery eyes, whereupon I made a decision: I was going to do something about this whole situation! What about those people from HELP, who we saw at the market quite regularly?” ...
Today, seven years later, Jima is a student at University. “I am too old to stay at the Kids house, where they took me in that said day”, she says, laughing. “It was a wonderful time, a time, where I became whole again.”
Jima is now living in a flat share connected with the Kids house. On Sundays she is a passionate singer in the worship band of our church. “God made my dreams come true: I could go to school and now even to University and I can sing for Jesus! I’ve never considered that possible!”
We are pleased (and a little proud, too), to see our kids became fledged. Some of them find their way back into their families over the years. Others stay attached to us, like Jima or Otgonbayer, who is working as a chef. Dawka and Nimaa, two brothers, even finished their vocational training as police officers and present themselves very proudly in their uniforms. Former neglected children, with a broken family background, become responsible citizens in society. Otgonbayer wants to take a vacation during summer: ”I want to join an evangelistic outreach, you know!”
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