2010 results are in!
10,564 students, 195 teachers from 6 schools/libraries are enjoying new books. And 18 teachers have new laptops! Thank you for all your amazing help! Can’t wait to unveil our plan for 2011!
10,564 students, 195 teachers from 6 schools/libraries are enjoying new books. And 18 teachers have new laptops! Thank you for all your amazing help! Can’t wait to unveil our plan for 2011!
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A photoset of images from our new library project at the Naran Complex School in Erdenet. This was our last project of the year and delivery was completed December 2010. This project benefitted 2210 students and 104 teachers! Thank you for all of your support this year!
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A photoset of images from our new library projects at the two Bayan Ondor Complex Primary Schools in Erdenet. Books were delivered in October 2010 and the children are loving them. This project benefitted 1389 students and their 63 teachers!
Global Giving Bonus Day today! June 16th, all donations matched at 50%! Give today —> http://is.gd/cRwpq
This is quite possibly the coolest idea I’ve seen in a long time. Would love to sit down with whoever is funding this… Many people living in Bangladesh’s impoverished villages haven’t yet been reached by technology. But a determined band of InfoLadies—young women equipped with netbooks, phones, and medical equipment—are delivering technology’s benefits to those people, one village at a time. These villages—and the Bangladeshis who live in them—are held back in many ways merely by a scarcity of information. The InfoLadies are the bearers of that information. Their netbooks come preloaded with relevant content that can be easily translated to local languages, and their messenger bags carry items like blood pressure monitors and pregnancy kits. Says one InfoLady: Ask me about the pest that’s infecting your crop, common skin diseases, how to seek help if your husband beats you or even how to stop having children, and I may have a solution. It seems that they often do have solutions—while the young, modern InfoLadies were initially regarded as something of a “scandal,” they’re now welcomed enthusiastically by individuals looking to check their blood pressure or increase the yield of their crops. One man, hoping to find work in technology, used an InfoLady’s netbook to get a crash course on Microsoft Office. Before the InfoLadies arrived, he said, “I had only seen computers in books.” via Gizmodo
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Have you ever thought what it would be like to have every country on earth supporting something you are doing? It’s the kind of support and community partnership that can make huge change possible. That is the idea behind our 20$10 Campaign. Our aim is to partner together with people from every country on earth to make a difference in children’s education in Mongolia. With this worldwide support we will reach out and invest in the futures of children in some of the poorest and most isolated rural areas in Mongolia.
Our goal is to raise 2,000 $10 donations from supporters from all over the world. Be a part of this worldwide effort to bring change in Mongolia. Join the 20$10 Campaign and give today!
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Winners of the recent 2010 Geography Olympiad Competition. We provided maps and English geography textbooks as prizes and oversaw the final ceremony. Students did a great job!
A new, local photography studio recently opened by three photographers from the Mongolian Flickrers group has pledged to take school/project photos for us. They’re called Studio-3 and are heading out soon to take professional photos at schools. Will post some of their shots soon. Thank you Studio-3!
Spring planting season is upon us! Help support our student planting project by giving today. $1 = 1 tree!Birch Grove Nature Preserve is an new initiative started by Edurelief in partnership with the Bugat soum goverment and Margad Deed Surguul of Erdenet City. The goal of this project is to teach local students and children about the importance of nature and forest protection and to promote community involvement in restoring at risk forest areas. The Bugat soum government has provide Edurelief with a large, at-risk piece of land just outside of Erdenet in an area which has been devastated by illegal logging, discarded garbage, and overgrazing. By using this project as an example, Edurelief aims to promote awareness of these issues to local students and community members and work together to preserve and restore damaged nature and forest areas near Erdenet, and around Mongolia.
Recent media coverage of our Laptops for Teachers program. English subtitles coming soon…
If you are Mongolian or work on behalf of Mongolia you should really watch this…
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With Bugat and Baruunburen sum school libraries complete we want to say thank you again so much to Anne, Aliocha, and Capucine who have helped us so much this past year. Their fundraising efforts sponsored these two libraries and we are truly grateful for the amazing work they put into helping our programs. We can’t wait until you guys visit and see the schools for yourself!
Sincerely,
Edurelief staff
Great video by one of our partner organizations the Asia Foundation. They recently ran a campaign asking for people to vote for a particular English book to provide in rural Mongolia. Wonderful video documenting the result. You can see their initial appeal video on their YouTube channel. Congratulations Books for Asia!
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Come see the photos of the ceremony for our recently completed Bugat sum school library project! 170 children and 16 teachers who previously did not have a library now have access to wonderful new books!
Our Mission: Edurelief is a development organization focused on breaking the cycle of poverty, improving quality of life, and encouraging hope in the future of the Mongolian people through sustainable education, training, and advocacy on their behalf.
