MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battsetseg, 36, has lived underground in her sewer-home for the past 10 years with her husband and family. Having ran out of money in the 1990s, during the country's worst economic downturn, she was forced onto the streets. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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