Kunjab Jampa Ling Center

Kunjab Jampa Ling Centre, Ulaanbaatar is now functional as a residential centre.
Dharma teachings are given on a regular basis during the year to children and to lay people.

It is the base from which Asral Charity now functions, providing training and teaching rooms, accommodation for staff and volunteers, a large community room and all necessary facilities.

The main aim of Asral Centre NGO is to provide the possibility of self-sustaining work wherever possible, focusing primarily on woman-headed households. The following projects are being implemented by Panchen Otrul Rinpoche:

Asral Charity
NGO Mongolia
('Asral' is Mongolian for 'Caring and Love')

. In 2001, Ven. Panchen Otrul Rinpoche formed Asral Charity in order to help some of the poorest and most disadvantaged families in Mongolia. His aim was to bring aid directly to the people. In 2005 Asral Charity's projects continue to grow and expand to meet needs and requests for assistance.

Asral NGO Projects.
The main aim through Asral Charity Projects, is increasingly to try and keep families together and to keep the children from going onto the streets through lack of food, warmth and parental care.
Another top priority continues to be trying to help develop self-sustaining work, both for parents and young people.

The social well-being of many people is declining and the depth of poverty increasing, although this is not always
obvious to the casual visitor.

It is estimated that at least a third of the population live in severe poverty, which is defined as the inability to buy enough food and other non-food items, or below $7 a month per person. Many people live close to this but in the ger areas, the shanty area, it is estimated that 46% of families are living below this poverty line.
This is hard enough in summer, but unbelievably harsh in winter.
People in these areas lack clean, accessible water. They face risks from inadequate sewerage, air pollution by coal-fire heating in the confined space of a ger, and primary health care. In the winter with freezing temperatures -30%C and below, they suffer from lack of heating, of warm nourishing food, and warm clothes.
Illness such as chest and kidney complaints, especially amongst the children, are prevalent because of the severity of the weather. It is when the parents can't cope that the children go onto the streets to fend for themselves.
There is often a spiralling down as the conditions get worse. The poorest families are those with only one parent, usually the mother.

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