Projects Ahora o Nunca: Mongolia
6. METHODOLOGY
We shall create a social documentary which will seek to awaken a sense of solidarity in western consciousness, currently unaware of the harsh reality in which the child population finds itself in Mongolia.
This documentary will shine a spotlight on two main areas: (1) the urban child population and (2) the rural or nomadic child population. Within these two categories we shall examine various profiles: children who survive on the streets of Ulaanbaatar or beneath them; children who have been accepted into child shelters and centres; and children who are forced to work from an early age, such as Kazakh children that leave school in order to look after the family’s cattle or to emigrate. Underlying these different profiles we may find a common denominator: the tough conditions in which they find themselves in a country unable to instil within them the hope of a better future.
Similarly, we aim to achieve the project’s goals by the dissemination of information, taking advantage of various media such as TV, printed press, internet, presentations and projections of the documentary in cultural spaces and schools.
Given the harshness of the country’s geography and the almost total lack of asphalted roads, we have decided to take recourse to an alternative means of travel: the bicycle. Previous experience has demonstrated that the use of a bicycle affords more direct contact with the local population and culture, and allows us to enter areas and places inaccessible to other means of motorized transport. Likewise, the bicycle is a quiet, unobtrusive, non-polluting means of transport which tends to awaken interest, sympathy and hospitality among the people we meet.
