Start 10 New School Libraries in Rural Mongolia

Dear friends and supporters, 2011 was a good year for Edurelief and our projects. We'd like to take this chance to thank you for helping us make some great things happen for students and teachers in Mongolia. We really could not have done it without you and are so thankful for all your efforts and fundraising on behalf of...

We're excited to announce that we have partnered with Ears to Our World (earstoourworld.org) to help provide portable world radios into classrooms and libraries we are working with. These radios help introduce a new form of learning and exploring for students. The radios are not only able to capture local radio signals but...

We've hit the summer slow season. Schools are out of session, most teachers and directors are on vacation in the countryside and no one can think of anything except horse racing and wrestling with the annual Naadam Festival just around the corner. Not a lot of activity takes place during this time, but it's the best time to...

Spring is coming and we are very excited to start a new year helping schools in rural Mongolia. An exciting new development is that we have a new cargo shipping partner based out of California that will help us ship books at a very low rate. Since the beginning, people have wanted to donate books and materials directly too...

Happy holidays everyone! We're happy to announce that we have finished up projects for the year. Made it just before the holiday break! Working with the six schools/libraries we mentioned in our last update we were able to get all of the books we had left to their libraries and into the hands of eager young readers. We...

Sorting and packing a mountain of books that recently came in. These books will be distributed to six different schools but the majority are going to two 1-5th grade primary schools in the city of Erdenet in north central Mongolia. We ran into some issues with the book publishers mixing orders, substituting out of stock...

Summer has arrived and school is out and that means things slow down considerably here in Mongolia. However we are still pressing on with our project to start 10 new school libraries to help children here receive a better education. We just received a new shipment of books from Ulaanbaatar and are sorting and organizing...