1 Feb 2010

MONGOLIA / SERVICES

Mongolians are making improvements to vital services for rural areas through funds which pay for amenities that local communities decide they need the most – such as water wells and traveling clinics. WORLD BANK

Posted at: February 1, 2010 4:11 pm

Duration: 03:07

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STORY: MONGOLIA / SERVICES
TRT: 3:07
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: MONGOLIAN / NATS

DATELINE: NOVEMBER 2009, BAYANKHONGOR, MONGOLIA

SHOTLIST

1. Various shots, herders with livestock at well
2. Close-up, water bag pouring out water
3. Wide shot, herders
4. Various shots, camels
5. Various shots, Herder Batjargal at well
6. Med shot, tying camels
7. Med shot, camel drinking water
8. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Batjargal, Camel Herder:
"This well we use for everything, for our daily use of water and for our livestock, and it is same for the other herders around this area."
9. Close-up, boy herder pouring water
10. Various shots, goats
11. Wide shot, community meeting
12. Various shots, audience
13. Various shots, watering goats
14. Various shots, patients hospital
15. Med shot, nurse making bed
16. Med shot, doctor on bike
17. Wide shot, doctor ridding away on bike
18. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Dr. Khurelchuluun, Physician:
"Before it was quite challenging because I only had a horse and it was difficult when it was snowy and rainy."
19. Various shots, doctor with patient
20. Various shots, children in dormitory
21. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Narangerel, Student: 
"It is all very useful and makes it a more convenient environment for study."
22. Wide shot, children walking to school

STORYLINE:

Mongolians are making improvements to vital services in rural areas through funds which pay for amenities that local communities decide they need the most such as water wells and traveling clinics.

Water can be hard to find during Mongolia's freezing winters. Plenty of it from dug wells is a welcome sight to the country's thousands of herders and the millions of livestock they live off.

Herder Batjargal, a father of four, says that this recently rehabilitated well is the only source of running water his family and their 700 heads of livestock have.

SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Batjargal, Camel Herder:
"This well we use for everything, for our daily use of water and for our livestock, and it is same for the other herders around this area."
Batjargal and other herders proposed the renovation of the once-defunct well in their area, under Mongolia's Sustainable Livelihoods Project, funded by the World Bank, European Union and Japanese Government.

The project's Community Initiatives program gathers rural community members and lets them decide what initiatives to finance with program funds.

Under the initiatives fund, rural communities are involved in the upgrading of small but vital infrastructure projects like the wells and hospitals. The Mongolian town of Ulziit chose to renovate its health centers using money from the fund to pay for new equipment, beds, sheets and windows.

Ulziit also funded a motorcycle for its traveling medic, Dr. Khurelchuluun, who rides up to 30 kilometers a day in freezing temperatures to make house calls to homebound patients.

SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Dr. Khurelchuluun, Physician:
"Before it was quite challenging because I only had a horse and it was difficult when it was snowy and rainy."

In addition to improving their health facilities, rural communities have allotted initiative funds to upgrading their education sectors.

Fund money has gone to renovating dormitories like this one in the Mongolian town of Bogd where children from isolated areas come to live in order to be able to attend school.

SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Narangerel, Student: 
"It is all very useful and makes it a more convenient environment for study."

Narangerel is studying in pursuit of her dream to become a doctor someday.

Filed under 02.04.00 - DEVELOPMENT MONGOLIA WORLD BANK.