Lauren Child, Charlie and Lola author, tells of her joy at adopting a Mongolian girl - Telegraph: "Child isn’t the first celebrity to adopt from Mongolia. In 2006, Ewan McGregor, the actor, and his wife, Eve, adopted a four-year-old Mongolian girl called Jamiyan.
Like Child, he has a connection with the country. His 2004 round-the-world motorcycling trip included a stop in Mongolia where, through Unicef, he visited children who were living in the caverns beneath the streets of Ulaanbaatar to keep warm. It is the coldest capital city in the world, with an average annual temperature of 27.6F (-2.4C).
Since the fall of communism in the early 1990s, and the associated collapse in the social welfare system, the number of street children in Mongolia has risen dramatically. According to the United Nations, there are almost 4,000 homeless children, ranging in age from five to 18. Several charities are operating in the country, offering shelter, food and education."
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