Changes

If I had the opportunity to change one thing about my hometown it would be the air pollution. Air pollution is a major problem for the people of Ulaanbaatar. As winter comes closer the problem comes nearer. The biggest problem is the “ger” slum area. They think that electric heaters are expensive and that the electricity bill will rise to the sky for using the electric heaters. So they fire coal to heat their homes, to survive the freezing winters of Mongolia. Some families can’t even afford to buy coal that they fire car used tires. They say that car tire burns longer and gives heat better than coal. So we inhale all this rubbish in winters.

If you ask me the reason why “ger” area was created  I can tell you this. The people from the countryside come to the capital because they think that they can live better in the capital. But they come to the city and can’t do anything because they don’t have the necessary qualifications for the jobs. And so people from the countryside become nothing. And when government says that they are living without a permission to own a land or that they don’t have the necessary documents they say that we are Mongolian people we have rights to live here. So because of the rudeness and disrespectfulness of these people government can’t change anything. Now the government wants to buy these places and build buildings that they can use. And by building these apartments air pollution will be degreased.

So if I had the opportunity to change one thing about my hometown it would be the air pollution.