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Asia, Mongolia, Ulaan Bator, March 24, 2011. Narantuya Enebish, 45 years old and ex sheperd crying just after she told me her story. This family lost all of their livestock (100 animals) that was their main source of income during the 2001 Dzud, and they moved from the Tuv province to Ulaan Baator in the Gher District. Her husband was working as taxy driver but after a car crash he is now paralyzed on the bed from 8 years, to sustain the family she started working by collecting cardboard at the Ulan Batar landfill but she got a lung cancer and now she can’t work every day in a so dirty and unhealthy place. They have 4 sons but only one is working as cleaning hospital but with any possibility in helping them. They get from the governrnent because of they sicknesses 140000 tugrik a month which are just enouth to buy the medicines they need (medium salary in Mongolia is around 300 dollars). (Photo by Alessandro Grassani)
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