Lost education, chance given
Constraints incurred from an education left behind During the transition to a market economy in the 1990s many children in Mongolia dropped out of school: some went for work, some started helping parents with herding livestock. This had a number of negative impacts on their further lives. Nowadays, ...
Juldyz: I am a brave girl who do not afraid of spiders
Juldyz* is a 13-year old Kazakh herder girl from Tsengel soum, far western village of Mongolia. She lives with her parents and a younger sister while her another two sisters stay in their relatives’ home during school session as they cannot commute to school from their home due to the long distanc...
Children with creative minds
Here we present the activities and successful experience of the “Radio Electronics” project of Kharkhorin Soum General Secondary School No. 2, Uvurkhangai province. The high school students who completed the ESEL training program of the project “Entrepreneurship-Focused Socio-Emoti...
Butterflies Will Make You Feel Free and Live Your Dreams
In the spring, a new service center called the “Book Cafe” opened in Tes soum, Zavkhan province. The cafe was established by students G.Tsenguun, B.Nandin-Erdene, D.Chinguun, A. Azjargal, and E. Temuulen through their “Butterfly” project. These students participated in the ESEL training of t...
“Student Locker” Project Lightens the Load
The “Rainbow of Success” team is a prime example of the achievements and success of the “Entrepreneurship-Focused Socio-Emotional Skills for the Most Vulnerable Youth in Rural Mongolia” project, implemented by Save the Children. In Bulgan soum, Khovd province, 11th and 12th grade graduates o...
Phoenixes of Most soum assist students to spend their free time productively
Since 2021, grant competitions for small scale projects in the target soums of 5 provinces were organized within the “Entrepreneurship-focused socio-emotional skills for the most vulnerable youth in rural Mongolia” project to support children and youth with entrepreneurial minds to create posi...
Training held to strengthen capacity of pediatric trauma care
Funded by the Australian Embassy Mongolia, Save the Children is implementing the “Strengthening capacity of pediatric trauma care and child first aid responses in rural areas” project in Erdene, Altai soums of Gobi-Altai aimag, and Saikhan-Ovoo soum of Dundgobi aimag. The project aims to...
My Story: From “I” to “We”
My name is E. Khorolnyam, and I am 18 years old. I was born and raised in a herder family. I was a very quiet, socially reserved, and shy girl when I graduated in 2019 from the 9th grade at the general secondary school in Jargalant Bagh, Uyanga soum, Uvurkhangai province, and enrolled in the [&helli...
Save the Children will implement a child protection project in Khovd aimag
Starting in January 2023, Save the Children’s project “Establishing school-based child protection mechanism in Mongolia” will be implemented in Khovd aimag. This child protection project will be implemented for three years by Save the Children Japan, Mongolia Office (SCJM) in col...
ESEL program expanded to polytechnic colleges and TVET schools
In the fastest-growing development, socio-emotional skills and entrepreneurship education are essential skills for adolescents and youth. Since 2020, Save the Children Japan has been implementing the “Entrepreneurship-Focused Socio-Emotional Skills for The Most Vulnerable Youth in Rural Mongol...