SALT LAKE CITY -- A team of medical volunteers, mostly from Utah, is preparing for a trek to one of the most remote countries in the world. It's an annual effort doing what many experts thought was a bad idea: teaching an advanced form of high-tech surgery in a primitive economy.
It's so off-the-beaten-track, a lot of people probably couldn't find Mongolia on a map. By
Marco Kesseler, Tom Jamieson, Jon Choksye and Edd Macey are driving to Mongolia in a 1953 Green Goddess fire engine. They have called it the Genghis Goddess and will join teams from around the world for the Mongol Rally challenge.
CHILDREN in Mongolia will benefit from 45,000 English reading books thanks to an international book collection scheme led in the UK by a Belbroughton-based photographer.
The Bookbridge initiative set out to collect unwanted children’s English books to equip school libraries in Mongolia so children in the country can learn English as a second l
A particularly severe winter in Mongolia is having a devastating impact on more than 12,000 people from herding families, whose entire reserves of livestock have died in the harsh conditions.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has released £65,000 from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund and issued an emergency appeal seeking £645,000 to sup
Over 10,000 people voted to give a book to children in the remote Mongolian village of Khishig Undur - the most participants yet!
The winning book is "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and Asia Foundation delivered it to Khishig Undur's 4th grade class on March 29th. We thought we'd give the children the opportunity to thank you themselves so please watch the video to the end!
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Emergency food relief is needed for nomadic herders in Mongolia after the number of livestock killed there by blizzards and extreme cold doubled in recent weeks, the Red Cross said Monday.
International funds of 1 million Swiss francs ($935,000) were needed to provide food and other emergency relief for herders in the poor, landlocked country, the Interna
BEIJING (AFP) – The Red Cross launched an emergency appeal Monday for nearly one million dollars to assist thousands of herders in Mongolia who have lost their livestock to one of the worst winters in decades.
The impoverished landlocked nation is currently grappling with a severe winter after a dry summer, a combination known locally as "dzud" that has led to extreme cold and f
