A 15-year-old girl lives psychologically in an extremely disturbing situation. She is a student at "Achlal" school in Mongolia. I talked to her during my visit to her school in summer of 2007. The school is located in one of the many ger districts surrounding the capital city of Mongolia. The ger district communities, which house about a half million people in the city, do not have running water or sanitation. The families are mostly very poor; the children are at risk of living with domestic violence or leaving home to a life on or under the streets.