As a volunteer, you will be assisting the Family Hospital in their effort to improve health care in poorest district in Ulaanbaatar and its surrounding areas. Two or three days a week, according to the community's needs, you will accompany a mobile clinic that goes out to rural communities around the capital that often have little or no medical facilities. The drive to these communities generally takes about an hour-and-a-half. The mobile clinic usually visits Day Care Center, Black market, Orphanage center and Ger district, so that the doctors can give the children medical check ups. On the days that you are not going out on the mobile clinic, you will assist in the Family Hospital medical centre, which provides basic medical aid to children.

You may be involved in the following activities:
- Assisting the Family Hospital medical staff in attending to patients in remote communities. You be help with treating wounds, doing tests, handing out medicine, etc.
- Helping raise awareness on health issues through educational campaigns, usually at schools
- Registering patients who are treated at the mobile clinic
- Assisting in the laboratory of the medical centre
- Assisting with physical therapy at the medical centre
- Assisting with first aid procedures at the medical centre

A Typical Day
You will generally work between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm, with an hour lunch break. Please note, however, that your schedule may vary slightly from day to day, depending on the work you are doing.

Build Homes for Underprivileged Families in Mongolia

If you want to immerse yourself in the laidback culture of Mongolia while making a real difference to the lives of local people, this project is perfect for you. You'll have the chance to work closely with Mongolian families as you help them to build a home that will really improve their quality of life.
There are an estimated 780,000 people in Mongolia who live in bad condition housing that doesn't have adequate sanitation or proper protection from cold weather. By working with these projects, you'll help to provide better homes for local families and make friends for life in the process.
These are real hands-on projects where you help with everything from making sun dried bricks to painting walls and generally rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck in.

Every year, hundreds of Mongolian children leave their poverty-stricken families in small villages and travel to the cities in search of work. In the city, most of them work in black markets, food markets or elsewhere. Living on the street, these children have no access to education or health care. Education however, is their one chance out of a life of poverty and exploitation.

Following recent government reforms in Mongolia, new programs have been established which have led to the creation of centers that care for Ulaanbaatar’s numerous street children. These centers offer the children primary medical care and counseling, they also prepare the kids to go back to school or on to other institutions where they can get vocational training. The children come from rough backgrounds and require a lot of patience, so working with the kids will not always be easy. However, this type of work can also be very rewarding, as you are really making a difference in their lives. Volunteers will mostly be involved in educating the kids, primarily by giving English language classes. Your active participation in extracurricular activities such as health education, playing games, drawing, painting etc. is also encouraged.

Apart from working at the children’s center, volunteers will also provide community support for example by assisting senior citizens living in the ger district around the center. One of your tasks might for example be to provide help with everyday work, such as chopping wood or getting water.

Teaching English

Mongolian schools and language centers are going to start teaching foreign language in cheerful game with toy in level of daily needs by adjusting their mental and physical features beginning from first grade. Otherwise, at the same time the pupils of the school studying English as native language. But they have to need the English environment and their native speakers. Volunteer main work is teach English to elementary, pre intermediate, intermediate, and Upper intermediate students, children and teens, usually aged between 8 and 16, make an effort to improve quality of the training, give consultancy to the teachers, help to organize the English language levels. Also your work will also include teaching basic English as well as speaking English to the students while participating in other activities. The idea is to give the students the chance to explore the English language in a more fun environment.

English Summer Camp

The camp is specially designed to be thorough English teaching and cultural programs. The basic activities for this volunteer work include teaching basic English and speaking English to 10-16 years old kids in an every day environment that difference from their regular school hours and home. Volunteers will help to Mongolian camp teachers to organize some activities like as sports; concert performances; arts and creations; environmental conservation and sports.

Business Management, Marketing and Development

Management and Business placements offer volunteers the opportunity to develop useful skills while taking part in an interesting and worthwhile project. Volunteers have the unique opportunity to acquire first-hand experience in a given area within the context of a completely different culture, whether Mongolian. Volunteers have worked in such areas as finance, accounting, law, architecture, human resources, marketing, advertising, property development, interior design, engineering and sales.

The main activity is to help to improve the staff English knowledge, especially marketing and business parts of English. Also teach Western Management lesson, how to improve the environments and conditions of the distribution and marketing team of the company.

During the first week of a placement volunteers will typically be shadowing members of staff in a range of departments, understanding their role, and gaining an overall appreciation ofhow the company works. Volunteers may well have the opportunity to work alongside senior managers.

Media

One of the perfect ways to experience Mongolia is trough a media project like this. This is great internship if you’re just starting out or even if you are an experienced professional seeking to recharge your batteries in new environment.  Mongolia’s premier television network offers a variety of programming: from Mongolian-style videos to probing documentaries. Its programmers are eager to add a Western flavor in a variety of ways, from set designs to proper English pronunciations. You might shoot and edit videos and documentaries or work on the floor during newscasts. Some of these target at-risk youth, warning them about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. Our media project is with the Mongolian TV channel, which has been producing music and entertainment shows there for the last six years. Volunteers at the studio take on a very hands-on role: assisting the Director with film production, taking part in editing work, and also teaching some English to other staff members.  

Mini Volunteer

Mini volunteer program is a marvelous opportunity because it combines your priceless volunteer work with four days of exploring the major tourist destinations of Mongolia. Here, you can stay in an unique Ger, or Tent House, and embark on the adventure of a lifetime. We believes that exploring the most famous places of Mongolia will enhance the volunteers' understanding about Mongolian life and lands. In this specially designed project, volunteers will work with orphans for the first few days. After this admirable and gratifying experience of assisting Mongolia's impoverished children, the volunteer will seek the area's major tourist destinations and see nomadic remains, grasslands, and horseback riding opportunities.

As a volunteer in the Day Care Center, you will make a profound and lasting difference in the lives of forgotten children and senior citizens. Also, volunteers will be involved in creating many fun activities that are designed to bring joy into the lives of parentless children. Along with instructing the children how to speak simple English, volunteers involved in this project will be engaged in other areas like painting, singing, and organizing games and lessons. Volunteers will work to provide a positive introduction into education and children will gain something that they will cherish for the rest of their lives - hope for the future. Apart from working at a Day Care Center, volunteers will provide their assistance to senior citizens who are living in the Ger district. Projects may include saw chopping wood and collecting water.

Health care

A lack of health care education, medical services and a resource in Mongolia has lead to much unnecessary suffering. Volunteers are also involved in other hospital activities such as record keeping, sanitation, nutrition, and patient education. Volunteers interested in Health Care programs must currently be a doctor, nurse, medical student, or hospital employee and must demonstrate an appropriate level of training and experience in the medical field. The Health care program places doctors, nurses, and medical school students in hospitals and health clinics in Mongolia. We have standing requests from local facilities for Internists, Urologists, Surgeons, Oncologists, Opthamologists, Nurses and Dentists. Volunteers will play a critical role in the villages and towns where they'll serve. And if volunteers have doubts about whether their skills and talents are really needed in this part of the world, consider this: The doctor-patient ratio in Mongolia is about 1 to 700-800. Particularly in rural areas, where much of the local people live, there is a desperate, chronic shortage of medical personnel and supplies.

Medical school students' activities will include things like following doctors on their rounds, exploring different treatments for simple ailments, providing physical therapy, and participating in vaccination programs.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is the coldest capital city in the world. Temperatures generally start to drop below 3'F in October, sink -29'F or lower. The street children, many of them homeless or orphaned, often ends up in the most difficult situation. You will be able to help them by old shoes.

The "New Choice" Mongolian Volunteer Organization organized "Donate A Shoe" project every year.

Don't Waste Your old shoes...

"Adventures of Mongolia" Jeep Expedition

This itinerary will run from the 14th to the 28th of July 2010 and 2011 as in below schedule. However, this trip can run at any time during the season from June 1st to September 30th for a minimum of two clients. If you are interested in your own private departure please contact with us.

Part of the your payments are contributed to the New Choice – Orphanage Center for its charitable activities for the development of children and young people in Mongolia.

Gift for Children

Any support you would give will make a real difference to these target people of our projects. This is the reason; we would like you to fundraise USD10-25 for the project to buy some warm clothes, books, or stationary for those children. Or your donation can be spent for a small family support projects that we have.

Pre-Departure Information:    

Before participants embark on their trip abroad, they will be provided a pre-departure packet that includes important details about their experience abroad. In addition, students may contact New Choice any time prior to departure with questions.

Orientation:    

A day language and culture orientation included. To better prepare volunteers and to make their experience more enjoyable, each volunteer placement of one month or longer begins with a two-day Mongolia language and culture orientation stage. Morning includes intensive language and cultural training in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. Afternoon provides volunteers with hands-on cultural learning through a home stay in a rural ethnic minority community and participation in various cultural activities. This is a fun and effective way for volunteers to adjust to a new environment before volunteering begins.

Housing:                     

Housing varies based on the placement location. During the volunteering stage of the placement, housing typically consists of a home stay with a local host family. This is a great opportunity for volunteers to learn experiential about Mongolia culture and family life. Volunteers can expect pleasant yet modest accommodations.

Food:

Food is provided as part of all volunteer placements. Traditional Mongolian food is served to volunteers two times a day (breakfast and dinner).  

Activities:

Many unique activities are included in volunteer placements of one-month or longer: ger district visit and hiking, cultural dance, Terelj National Park trip and a visit to Gandan Monastery, Natural History Museum or art gallery.