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Boundless Horizons
Mongolia's prodigious landscape is dotted with small settlements, home to nomad families that cling to tradition while striving to make a living.
Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps

Special Report: 
Boundless Horizons

Country: Mongolia

A Journey Begins with Two Flat Tires ›

Topics: Peaceful Change, Economic Development, Agriculture

Travel in Mongolia is some of the toughest I've ever experienced: regardless, we rumbled more than 1,600 miles across desert, steppes and mountains.

Preserving Nomadic Life ›

Topics: Agriculture, Economic Development, Peaceful Change

In the sometimes-splendid isolation of the Gobi, Tumurchuluun knows that herding is good work, important work. And Mercy Corps knows that, too.

Miracle Growth ›

Topics: Agriculture, Economic Development, Peaceful Change

This is a story about how political transformation, tourism and tomatoes created an oasis in the southernmost reaches of the Gobi. It begins with a man named Poli.

Shepherding Tradition ›

Topics: Peaceful Change, Economic Development, Agriculture

Here in a nomad camp in Mongolia's southernmost province, the Master Herder is dressed in a black velvet jacket, grey corduroy pants and blue hiking boots.

Better School Lunches - No, Really ›

Topics: Agriculture, Children, Peaceful Change

Throughout much of Mongolia, school meals are the only nutrition that students receive. Mercy Corps helped make them more nutritious.

Opening Drawers ›

Topics: Economic Development

How does traditional Mongolian nomad furniture end up in children's rooms in Amsterdam, more than 4,000 miles away? A combination of craftsmanship and connections, with a little help from Mercy Corps.

Photo Essay: Faces of the Gobi ›

Here are some of the people and landscapes that writer Roger Burks and photographer Thatcher Cook encountered on a two-week, 1,600 mile journey over Mongolia's deserts, mountains and steppes.

Mongolia Facts

  • Population (2008): 3 million
  • Size: slightly smaller than Alaska
  • Human Development Index rank: 112 (out of 179)
  • Mercy Corps has worked here since 1999
  • Primary work: Economic development for rural businesses, veterinary and other support to traditional herders, support of local organizations and access to commercial financial services
  • World's second largest land-locked country
  • World's most sparsely-populated country

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Roger Burks
Senior Writer
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