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!
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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!
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…
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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
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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!
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Our Laptops for Teachers pilot program has been launched with great hurrah and success with 12 local teachers from two schools. See more photos over on our flickr page.
We’re excited to share with you that just before Christmas we completed the first library sponsored by Capucine and Aliocha’s Library fund in the town of Baruunburen (map). We’ve been working hard on this program since the summer, partnering with a volunteer team from France to renovate the library room at the Baruunburen school, and bring in new library materials, shelves, a new laptop computer, and lots and lots of books.
Baruunburen is where everything began for us back in 2006 when we started our first school library project at the town’s public school. And now, three years later, we are proud to be able to complete a second project, this time at a smaller school serving nearly 200 students from poor families living in the town.
We’ve already had reports back from the school that the children’s interest in reading has greatly increased as they go through their new library and teachers are now able to give lessons from government approved textbooks instead of simply on blackboards. We are so proud of the students at this school and look forward to continuing to work with them in the coming years to help give this community a better future.
Many thanks to Capucine and her brother Aliocha, our youngest supporters who have awed us with their fundraising capabilities, raising enough funds for at least two school library programs. We’ll be completing their second project shortly at a 1st-9th grade school in a little town called Bugat (map). Stay tuned for updates!
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EDURELIEF’S LAPTOPS FOR TEACHERS
We are proud to announce that Edurelief has just launched an exciting new program in our ongoing endeavor to promote education in Mongolia. Laptops for Teachers is a program that provides teachers with laptops at 0% interest loans to aid them in their efforts of educating Mongolia’s youth. We’ve been dreaming about this program for a long time and are beside ourselves with excitement that it is finally happening. We delivered our very first laptop this month and are working hard to put together a pilot program for 10 other teachers. We’ve never seen 10 applicant spots fill so fast, demand is huge.
MEET NATSAGDORJ
Meet Natsagdorj, the first teacher to benefit from our Laptops for Teachers program. Natsagdorj is a 62-year-old Mongolian language teacher and one of only two teachers in the entire country that has a doctorate in teaching Traditional Mongolian Script. Natsagdorj has had a great need for a laptop to continue his research and textbook writing so he can pass his knowledge onto other teachers and students but until becoming a part Edurelief’s Laptops for Teachers program, was unable to afford one. Thanks to our 0% interest loan and the ability to pay over an extended period of time, he chose to split up his payments over the next six months and has already started working on a new textbook. It is our hope that with seed money from investors we will be able to provide many more teachers in Mongolia with laptops and thus vastly improving their ability to prepare lessons, share curriculum, and promote education.
YOU CAN FUND A TEACHER’S LAPTOP LOAN
Help us invest in Mongolian education by helping teachers to purchase laptops. These teachers are working face-to-face with children daily and being able to do research, plan lessons, and write and share curriculum makes a huge impact on the development of education. A $500 donation covers the cost of a new laptop, as well as shipping and customs fees related to getting the laptop into the hands of a teacher. This cost is still well below market price in Mongolia and since teachers can split up their loan into as many as 12 monthly payments it’s an opportunity that many will benefit from. After the loan is fully repaid we simply use those funds to purchase another laptop. What does this mean for you? It means that over the course of several years, your $500 donation is reused over and over again, aiding teachers and promoting education in Mongolia. Help make a difference today, invest in a teacher.
We believe in proving what we are doing to our donors, volunteers, and the rest of the general public. We want our work to be transparent and understandable, showing that people’s time and monetary investments are actually doing something good. One way we do this is by plotting out all of our programs on Google Maps/Earth and sharing that via our website and newsletters. In the past we had been tagging schools manually with satellite images to find their location. This task will now be much easier and more accurate thanks to ION who recently donated the funds necessary for a GPS unit which will help things move a lot quicker. Can’t wait to see a map of Mongolia covered with little “+”s to signify the school libraries and other projects we’ve been able to start… Thank you ION!
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.
