Invalid children have demonstrated with their parents and teachers outside the demolished building of their old kindergarten. The protest consisting of wheelchair-bound children aged two to six years of age took place earlier today (9 November) at the spot where Ulaanbaatar’s10th special kindergarten had once stood. In temperatures of -5 C, the parents, teachers and children demanded that the Mongolian Government includes a new kindergarten in the 2018 State Budget.

In 2013, the building of the 10th Special Kindergarten was considered unfit and was promptly closed and demolished; that was four years ago – until now a new building has still not been constructed. After the closure, the special-needs children were transferred to 58th kindergarten located at the  ‘Unur Bul’ nursing center.

Earlier, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports proposed increasing the capacity of the new 10th kindergarten from 120-250 beds and to spending MNT 2.5 billion from the State Budget. How the government will respond to today’s wheelchair protest remains to be seen.