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MaximsNewsNetwork: 02 February 2010 - The World Bank: Mongolia - 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 Mongolias freezing winters. Plenty of it from dug wells is a welcome sight to the countrys 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 Mongolias Sustainable Livelihoods Project, funded by the World Bank, European Union and Japanese Government.

The projects 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. ................................................................................­.............................. ( THE WORLD BANK ) ................................................................................­................................ MaximsNewsNetwork:
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