Current Projects

Orphanage in Ulaan Baatar	School & Community hall refurbishment, Altan Bulag School, Tuv Aimag
English language classroom at Special Needs School - Yarmag	Social & community group - Hovsgol, North Mongolia

Go Wilderness Mongolia has developed a long standing and valuable relationship with a few local community groups. It is with these groups that you can have a positive lasting effect. By giving some of your time and enthusiasm whils in Mongolia. Off course with this being Mongolia if you have a chance to raise some funds before your come, your visit will be remembered for a much longer time.

We keep our projects seperate from Go Wilderness Mongolia Co, Ltd. as a non profit making part of your trip. To keep this transparent we run our projects through the Togoruu Trust, our sister organisation. For more details on the Togoruu Trust.

Presently we can offer real projects with the following groups / communities.

    * Special needs school # 63 in Yarmag, Ulaan Baatar. This is our local school, it receives funding from the government but not enough. here the children vary from able bodied through to various physical and social disabilities. Some children really need one to one or specialist help. The shcool staff are really dedicated but also understand that they are spread thinly through the children.

• You can help in a variety of ways;
   
• By physically helping the teachers with children
• By helping develop special resource areas
• By painting and decorating or renovating school areas
• By teaching the school staff English language
• By teaching children English language
• By helping fund and run a summer camp for the less able children
• By bringing resources such as books and learning toys

    * Helping at a local Orphanage, in Ulaan baatar or in the countryside. The withdrawal of the Soviet government in the late 1980's caused a social upheval never witnessed before in Mongolia. With the new democratic government still struggling to develop a social infrastructure it seems that the first people to be hit are the poor. This has created an overwhelming amount of homeless children. Some reports now suggest there are more than 120 orphanages in the Ulaan baatar area. Most of these get little if any helpfrom the government. Most rely on donations and hard working volunteer staff.

• You can help in a number of ways
   
• By physically helping the Ger mothers run their 'families'. This means just doing simple and mundane but necesessary tasks such as cooking, cleaning, washing children, etc. This allows the Ger mother to do other jobs that they would not normally have time for.
• By working on planned maintenance projects such as painting and decoration.
• By volunteering as a teacher for a short period of time.
• By providing funds for developmental programmes in the orphanage.
• By planning and running a summer camp for the children. A summer camp allows the children to get away from the city for a few weeks. Summer camps ideally have lots of entertaining and educational activities that volunteers from overseas will have time and energy to plan and deliver.               

    * The Tsataan Community. This small group of people live in the Darkhad Valley, North West of Renchenlumbe in the very far North of Mongolia. Their community centre is at Tsaggannuur. The people have set up a community based tourism programme that they want all visitors to use. Its like a co-operative where all profits are shared out on a needs basis to the families within the community.Their aims and objectives are based on the simple principle that they want to develop as a community without losing their cultural and historical identity. They live in teepees (a type of Ger) and raise reindeer in traditional ways. Their whole existence is based on the reindeers life cycle.

When we first brokered working with the community with our schools development expeditions they welcomed the idea.

As the community are nomadic and are often up in the Taiga, any group wanting to incorporate a visit as a project must allow a minimum of 7 clear days for the visit.

It is a tough project. It will suit a mature group who are up for a phicically challenging and mentally stimulating project. It starts with a 1-2 day horse trek through the Taiga to find the families.

We support the community by paying for the services they offer during our project visit. These services include food, accommodation (in teepees), horses and Taiga guides.

A project with the Tsataan Community is a fantastically rewarding and quite unique experience.

• You can help in a number of ways.
   
• By teaching English language.
• By helping out with daily chores such as cooking, chopping wood,collecting fodder and reindeer herding.
• Teaching and singing songs, both English folk and traditional Tsataan/Mongolian songs.
• By planning and running sports and games, both English and Mongolian.
• By bringing English language resources, maps, dictionaries, etc.

We have other ongoing projects, please email if what we have above doesn't quite meet your needs.

We plan all our Projects from a blank sheet of paper. all we need is some basic information from you and we'll develop a bespoke programme.

To see the questions we ask please click here.             To email us direct please click here.