News: Our team will be in Mongolia the first three weeks in January 2012, networking with various governmental and NGO groups who work in the area of rural health care. Our goal is to move Nomadicare to a more institutionally sustainable place, where Mongolian groups can help it serve more people.
Nomadicare Newsletter (Winter 2011)
Posted by: Sas Carey - News - 2011/12/12
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Dear Friends,
As you know, my life is about Quaker leadings—listening to the Spirit voice inside me for direction. Sometimes the direction isn’t a straight line. This summer when my 91-year- old Mom went into hospice, I knew I needed to stay close. I postponed my trip to Mongolia and spent three days a week in Connecticut with Mom in the dementia wing of a nursing home. As you can imagine, being there was another kind of journey. My lovely Mom is now in stable condition, so I feel easy about going to Mongolia in January.
Our new Mongolian assistant Naraa organized the Vitamin C project. She, along with Mongolians we have worked with in the past, packaged the individual doses into family bags so the Dukha reindeer herders still got their yearly supply of Vitamin C.
This past summer I studied Mongolian songs! Mongolian songs feature Mother, the steppes, nature, love and horses. A gathering of nomads always includes singing with vodka toasts. My Mongolian language teachers who live in Virginia and Indiana meet with me by Skype. With IT help from Fred Thodal I can now tape the Skype sessions, transfer them to my i-phone and plug the phone into my car radio. The songs are best sung with a person’s whole heart and loud enough to fill the gigantic spaces of the steppes. Sometimes my car, house, trees and the close hills of Vermont make me feel cramped. I look forward to belting them out in Mongolia’s open spaces.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation continues to support our programs, especially our long term relationship with the Dukha reindeer herders and their health. We are very grateful to them and to all of you who support our work on an ongoing basis.
Our plans for training 50 doctors in Khovsgol are postponed to next summer and twenty-four hospitals are waiting for our training! I am excited to have my Mongolian medicine teacher Dr. Boldsaikhan join our program as a teacher.
Please contribute your tax-deductible donation to Nomadicare, so that we can continue to improve nomadic health care in Mongolia—and support the sustainability of their unique lifestyle.
I wish you a peaceful and healthy 2012!
With gratitude for the honor of doing this work,
Sas Carey, RN, Director
Local Donors for Nomadicare
Posted by: Sas Carey - News - 2011/10/03
Local Middlebury Vermont resale shop Neat Repeats has just made their third generous donation this year to Nomadicare from the sale of donors’ used clothing. This is a wonderful way for locals to support Nomadicare.
Area residents are reminded that:
- Neat Repeats will gladly accept clean, current styles of clothing
- Consignments must arrive during business hours. For Nomadicare to get the proceeds, clothing may not be dropped outside with a note or into the donation box.
- If items need to be laundered, the proceeds do not go to Nomadicare.
- Please donate only sale-able items. (Would you buy it?)
We would like to thank Neat Repeats as well as all of our friends who have donated for Nomadicare!
Nomadicare 2011 Newsletter
Posted by: admin - News » Nomadicare Project - 2011/03/17
Dear Friends,
Thanks to your Nomadicare donations, our pilot project worked! Local hospitals in South Gobi province now have improved laboratory safety procedures and tests along with traditional Mongolian medicine options. We trained thirty doctors and nurses, two from each of the South Gobi sum (county) hospitals. And it was fun. (Check You Tube under Nomadicare for a two-minute glimpse of the training.) A nomadic and rural population of 50,000 is benefitting from your help!
Nomadicare 2010 Newsletter
Posted by: admin - News » Nomadicare Project - 2011/01/02
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce that after more than a decade and a half of working with nomads, we implemented what we believe is needed most: the Mongolian Sum Hospital Project. Seeing the plan become a reality felt like a breakthrough in my life’s work. I am grateful to the many people who helped make this happen and to our partners the South Gobi Province Health Department and the Traditional Medicine Department of the Health and Sciences University of Mongolia.
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