Hi Everybody,
Well, a new summer is here in Mongolia, and with that comes the requisite influx of interns at the Millennium Challenge Account Office in Ulaanbaatar. I am one of those interns, working for the Communications Office. During my time here, I plan to restart the MCA Mongolia blog, once again bringing you up-to-date information about what the MCA is doing, and in particular keeping you abreast of the six projects that MCA is working on. Just to remind you, the six projects are:
- Property Rights Project
- Peri-Urban Rangeland Project
- Vocational and Education Project
- Health Project
- Energy and Environment Project
- Road Project
You can read more about each of these projects and about the MCA Mongolia in general here.
Like my predecessor, in the coming months I hope to conduct field visits and report back with photos and commentary on the MCA's accomplishments and works in progress. However, for now, all I have to say is welcome back to the (newly reformatted) blog! I promise more useful and informative posts are in the works.
Hi. We are currently in Mongolia on some missions work and looking at opportunities. We see massive potential and massive mistakes. 1) We are looking at purchasing a Russian era building which has not been painted since the 1960s. We need to remove the existing paint. Is there a Hazmat team or service here? Apparently Mongolia still allows lead paint which causes retardation in children and cancer. Also, how to test for asbestos? 2) Sorry, but I am told by locals that the stove project by MCA did not work. (no one can say why... and I do hope they are wrong). As electricity is cheap due to plentiful coal, why not electric stoves and heaters? MUST make sure no 'outages' in winter. 3) People not only burn coal in the winter but tires, garbage, wood (lead painted), stolen fence posts (chemically treated) even blankets because at 70 below zero... it's heat or die. 4) Water (drinking) is in short supply and UB is out of drinking water in 5 years or less. I've several ideas to help but need resources and contacts (not all in power really care... hence past president is in jail). Contact me please at Mike at Michael Podolinsky dot com. Thanks and God bless you
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