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Funded mainly out of their own pocket, they buy cheap meat — sheep and goat intestines — to provide meals because many of the young trainees show up without having eaten protein in days.<\/p>\n
They teach the children to be strong, not only on the outside, but also on the inside.<\/p>\n
“Here, children don’t know their value and their importance,” Badamtuya says. “With lessons of obedience, honesty, [gratitude], and things like that, they start changing.”<\/p>\n
“Some children are skillful in boxing, but if they don’t have character development, they won’t be successful,” she says.<\/p>\n
Oyunbold said the idea to start the club came while he was studying at the local Youth With A Mission branch. Growing up, he would see destitute children in the street while their parents were drunk. It haunted him. But out of that emerged a vision for a center that would care for youth, and somehow it would involve boxing.<\/p>\n It was difficult getting started and keeping the vision alive.<\/p>\n “I prayed asking God, ‘You gave me this ministry, what is happening now?’” Oyunbold says. “He sent me the boys who lack love and let me minister.”<\/p>\n That was in 2011. He soon found a boxing coach who mentored him and trained him in how to set up a boxing club. Soon Badamtuya began working with young girls who signed up to learn to box — girls like Otganbayar looking for a chance to make a dream come true. She wasn’t scared to box; the only nervousness she feels is when she steps into the ring.<\/p>\n As Oyunbold sat amid the club’s well-lit white walls, boxing ring, well-organized equipment, he said his dream of a place for children was coming true. And for many children, a chance to soar on wings like eagles.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Mongolian couple is teaching boxing as a ministry to youth in this poor central Mongolian province transforming the lives of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":27555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"country":[468],"filter":[176],"leader":[],"class_list":["post-27527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-protection-news-stories","country-mongolia","filter-from-the-field","tags-magazine"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/D256-0354-171707242x400.jpg\")