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On arrival at the center the children must be identified. Many lie about their identity because they do not want to go back to their families. This complicates the work of the police.

On the way to the Adress Identification Center.

A boy is found sleeping in a blind alley in a shopping mall.

With the breakdown of communist rule in Mongolia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the first generation of  mongolian street children was born. The police estimate that more than one thousand children live in the…

Two streetboys testing each other on strength.

Johnoo waits patiently outside a restaurant hoping for leftovers from the tables.

11-year old Johnoo is killing time on  the steps of a big indoor food market where he spends all day in order to keep warm and to beg at the stalls and restaurants. Johnoo has been living on the street for two years, he ran away from home because…

A boy begging in the area around  the State Department Store.

keeping up appearances. The two girls in the group are doing their make-up.

One of the girls of the group is washing her hair with water from the district heating pipelines while one of the boys is having a rest.