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Mongolia: AmeriCares Medical Aid and Emergency Relief

Mongolia is a central Asian nation landlocked between China and Russia. The country's diverse landscape is subject to an extremely harsh climate, featuring long and bitterly cold winters. For more than half of the year the temperature is far below freezing, reaching averages of negative 30 degrees.

Efforts to make health care more accessible have been hindered by the country's severe climate, rough geography, widely dispersed population and lack of infrastructure. Most families have very limited access to electricity and modern amenities.

AmeriCares work in Mongolia focuses on helping the most at-risk populations, specifically orphans and the homeless who experience high rates of malnutrition, are left vulnerable to the harsh climate, and lack access to clean water and sanitation.

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Emergency Response and Disaster Relief        

In March 2000, AmeriCares responded to the Government of Mongolia's appeal for international assistance after a brutal winter killed more than 800,000 livestock and left a large portion of the population in need of food, clothing and medicine. AmeriCares delivered lifesaving medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian relief. 

Medical and Humanitarian Relief        

Since 2000, AmeriCares has delivered miore than $22 worth of of medical aid and humanitarian relief to help the people of Monoglia. AmeriCares donations benefit a large network of public and private healthcare facilities throughout Mongolia.  In partnership with the Mongolian chapter of the Fraternité Notre Dame, donated medicines and supplies help support orphanages for abandoned children, a housing settlement for underprivileged families, and community outreach programs for the homeless.

Some of the most important aid provided by AmeriCares includes nutritional supplements. Nutritional supplements are essential for the treatment of malnourished children suffering from Vitamin D deficiency, a condition that often leads to rickets. Rickets is the softening of bones that causes fractures and deformities. This very preventable disease is common among orphaned children suffering from starvation in Mongolia.

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AmeriCares is approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (C) (3) tax-exempt organization, and all donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law. AmeriCares Federal Identification Number (EIN) is 061008595.