Mongolia

Lotus Children Center
(www.lotuschild.org)

Lotus Children Center serves as a kindergarten and orphanage to over 120 homeless children in Yarmag district in Ulaanbaatar. The center was established in 1995 and is run by Didi, a Buddhist nun from Australia who is devoted to assisting Ulaanbaatar’s poorest citizens.

 

The Princess Center
(www.princesscenter.org/main_eng.html)

Center for the protection of girls and young women’s rights in Mongolia. Their mission is to help solve the social problems of girls and young women by providing counseling and socio-psychological work.

 

 

 

Mongolian Woman Fund
(www.owc.org.mn/mwf/english.htm)

An umbrella organization for all women related issues in Mongolia. Their mission is to contribute to the establishment of democratic, equal, justice society through the financial support to the Mongolian Women and women's group's active participation into the political, economic and social, cultural life.

 

Hustain Nuruu National Park
(www.owc.org.mn/macne/hustai/about.htm)

Hustai National Park lies in the foothills of the southern Khenti Mountain Range about 100km south west of Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. It takes its name (sometimes also known as Khustain Nuruu National Park) from birch trees growing in surrounding mountain forests. In Mongolian khustai means "with birch" and nuruu means "mountains". Hustai National Park has three main management aims. The first is the long term conservation of the ecosystem's biodiversity. A sustainable ecosystem is being restored using modern genetic and geographic principles and nature management is being integrated with social-economic processes to allow local people to benefit from wildlife conservation. In line with this aim, many buffer zone programs have been initiated in the area surrounding the park.

 

Erdene Zuu Monastery
(www.erdenezuu.mn/)

Erdene Zuu Monastery was the first Buddhist Monastery to be established in Mongolia. Now it is the first monastery in Mongolia to run a Compassion in Action programme. Located in Kharkhorin, site of Chingis Khan's capital Karakorum, this area has suffered greatly in the transition from a communist state to a market economy. It is now a place of abject poverty, high unemployment and deforestation. Erdene Zuu Endeavour, since it's inception in 2005, is working hard to enable those in need to lead flourishing lives.