Together With Migrants

This project, funded by the UNESCO and UNFPA, helps recent migrants to the city to register in their new communities, to obtain medical care, to get vital vocational training and job placement, and to find a place within city society. Together with Migrants also links recent migrants together, helping them to replicate the tight relationships they shared in the countryside. Together with Migrants not only provides access to vital social services, but also a forum to bond as friends, share experiences and help one other. Implemented twice already, the Zorig Foundation hopes to expand the project and continue working in the outlying districts of Ulaanbaatar starting in Fall 2009.

Community Projects

• Provided custom beds, equipment, crutches and wheelchairs to hospital in Ulaanbaatar and in the countryside.
• Implemented a project in Umnugobi and Dornod Aimags that provided over 50 families with enough livestock to become a source of sustenance.
• Helped rural citizens to grow vegetables, manually produce leather and cloth, make national shoes and saddles, make carpentry, domestically manufacture felt and felt products. We also distributed the necessary equipments and technology.
• Implemented a project to build 4 wells in the ger district areas of Ulaanbaatar.
• In collaboration with the 2660 District of Japan, we distributed 16 sets of injection apparatus to the Infant Research Center.
• With funding and support from the Ensemble Le Pegase and the Rotary Club of Osaka Central, we gave 5-walled gers to 48 families in Ulaanbaatar with no housing.
• Organized a seminar on ‘How to overcome poverty in Mongolia: the current trends and needs of future research’ in collaboration with the German Economic Research Institute /March 2009/
• We successfully confirmed the registration of 11,222 residents of Gobi-Altai, Zavhan, Hovd, Uvs, Bayanulgii, Bayanhongor Aimags and Songinohairhan, Bayanzurh, Nalaikh, Bagakhangai, Baganuur Districts of Ulaanbaatar, who were extremely poor and grouped under the 1st, 3rd and 4th groupings of the social welfare program run by the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor /July 2009/
• In collaboration with the US NGO FIRE, we distributed winter clothes, crutches and wheelchairs to over 150 poor and disabled residents of Songinohairhan District as well as providing winter clothes to School #29 for children with disabilities.