Blind to the blind: the struggle for opportunity in Mongolia | Ubpost News: "It’s hard to faze Gladis. It’s even harder to faze Uyanga.
In the hotel’s 6th floor lobby, the sounds of flashes, video equipment, scurrying leather shoes, and quick questions scattered across the walls. Heat from bodies rose to meet the smells of lunch coming from the next room, which created pockets of disruption in the comfortable, sanitary hotel smell. Everyone was hungry. But they had to wait; wait in the noise; wait for the last microphone to mute. Uyanga sat on a lobby chair. Her dog, Gladis, was on the floor. After the UNICEF event for children with disabilities was over, they were some of the last to move and sit for the meal.
“The cameras: they like the dog,” she said in a cafe a week after the event. Most of her sentences carried a similar bluntness, her face, an accompanying skepticism. Yet, her voice was light. She doesn’t like the cameras."
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