Donald and Shelley Rubin Foundation Funds Taiga Health Project

The Donald and Shelley Rubin Foundation of New York City has generously provided funding for the purpose of creating a health database for the Dukha Reindeer Herder’s settlements in Mongolia. A Nomadicare team made up of Director Sas Carey, Mongolian intern Khongorzul, Mongolian filmmaker Samkhuu and guides will spend nearly a month in the taiga in northern Mongolia this summer on this project.

“We are grateful to continue the work we began last year. The taiga is far from the stream of goods and

services in Mongolia. Our goal is to create a comprehensive picture of the Dukha’s health so that national and international donors, including NOMADICARE, can deliver what is really needed,” said Sas Carey when she got news of the support.

Besides the health data base, the team will provide public health education along with personal hygiene kits, and a solar lamp and small solar refrigerator for the closest hospital, which has no electricity or running water.

The 11th Jane Goodall Symposium

In April, Director Sas Carey had the honor of presenting NOMADICARE projects with Jane Goodall, UN Peace Messenger, and others at Western Connecticut University in a symposium titled, “Why care?”

“I am impressed by Jane Goodall's program Roots and Shoots, which connects youth groups in 100 countries. Each group is asked to do one project for conservation of the land, one for animals and one for people! I find myself more and more passionate about the importance of sustaining nomadic life in Mongolia, which has elements of all three,” said Sas Carey.

Other symposium presenters, Wendy Gonyea, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onandaga Nation, and Larry Marsicano of Candlewood Lake Authority, spoke about projects to clean up Lake Candlewood, CT and Lake Onondaga, NY.