Mongolia is one of the latest countries where the Society of St. Vincent de Paul  is established.  The Mongolian SSVP was created in Ulaanbaatar in 2005 by a group of Catholic lay people from South Korea.

Mrs. Kwon Helena, a Korean Resident in Mongolia and some visitors from SSVP Korea including Mr. Anthony, Ms. Maria and others,  joined together to create the Conference according to the recommendations of Mr. Im, In-Chul, President of Suwon Diocean Council of SSVP Korea. Mr. Anthony, Exchange Professor Mongolia National University and Mrs. Helena translated prayers and the manual of SSVP Korea into Mongolian. Many Korean Vincentians have visited Mongolia to give guidelines on conference meeting essentials and home visits.

At the end of her term, on April 26, 2011, the first President Mrs. Helena Kwon, encouraged Mongolians to select the next president of the Conference. The results was that the new leadership was chosen from among the Mongolian people, and Koreans became donor members & associate members.

Nowadays, the Mongolian SSVP has 11 members. All members are Mongolian. The Conference Meeting is held every Friday.

Board :

• Spiritual Advisor: Fr.Hur Woong, Francisco
• President: Bayraa (February 3, 2012 ~ Present)
• Secretary: Badamkhand Bernadette (December 9, 2012 ~ Present)
• Treasurer: Oyunbolor Anna ( October 25, 2008 ~ Present)

Major activities :

• Lunch Service for study Group: a lunch is served fora  study group from Monday to Friday. Most of students are poor family’s children so they come to the center after school every day. Volunteers help them to do homework and study new things.
• Meal Service at landfill: Mongolia is developing country but there are so many poor people who living and working at the landfill so SSVP’s members serve meal at the landfill every Saturday of week. They also pray with people and share about their life.
• Home visiting: they visit poor families once or twice a month. Most of families have a female head of a household. They pray for them and also help them by food materials.
• Prison visits: visit sick people in prison once a month and special holidays.
• English, Korean class: We teach English, Korean and other interesting things for children every Saturday. Children go to church after classes.
• Transportation money: There are many children who can’t go to school because the cost of transportation is expensive so SSVP helps them for transportation money once a week.

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