de ces mers où ciel, boue, puanteur pâle sont enchevêtrés,
dans ce vacarme aussi, levé aux marges du silence,
la fracture d’une silhouette
Son jeu envers et contre
Une vie réduite à son ombre
qu’on n’aura pourtant pas éteinte
Carole Zalberg
The UB Borderline reportage investigates the periurban areas of the
Mongolian capital city laying the gaze where the relation between human
and environment becomes manifest. The borderline is meant both as
geographical and social, as they usually match. These areas are the
result of recent urban immigration stirred by climate change,
desertification and new social models.
Recent urban immigration in the capital city of Mongolia brought to
the formation of periurban areas with high level of unemployed and high
poverty income levels. In this contest, kids are often forced to work
and many do not attend school.
The periurban areas, called “Gers District”, have developed without a
planned strategy or infrastructural services as roads, water,
electricity, sewers. At the beginning nomads settled with their Yurts,
and this has been their luck compared with other cities slums, but now
many are building houses.
In December the outside temperature it is normally around -30
Celsius. Coal or wood, which is very expensive, are the only heating
sources for all the periurban areas of UB. Air pollution caused by the
smoke of burned coal of the four power plants and of the stoves of Gers
often causes pulmonary diseases.
Poverty brought around 300 people, of which almost 50 are children
from 5 to 18, to live collecting and differentiating waste in the
garbage dump. 100 of them have their homes build in the dump.
4 people can live in a 2,50 x 3 meters home made of wood, plastic and bed nets.
Malnutrition, lack of hygiene and pollution are the main causes of
TB. Therefore TB disease is closely connected with social welfare.
Matteo Gozzi
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