Building affordable, green houses in Mongolia's ger districts
When temperatures plummet in the Mongolian winter and households pile more coal onto their stoves to keep warm, Oyun-Erdene Navganjav’s concern grows for herself and her family. “It gets very cold and very smoky. There’s much more pollution and I worry about how much it is damaging the children’s health,” says the 30-year-old mother of three from her three-room brick home in the Bayankhoshuu subcenter on the southern outskirts of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. Oyun-Erdene is one of around 840,000 people who live in one of Mongolia’s so-called ger districts, unplanned neigh...
Source: adb.org