Our Mission - Domestic

• Our mission is to enable Mongolians to improve their health, safety and quality of life by providing training and community service and
• To provide ongoing and progressive rescue services through co-operative partnerships with the international rescue community and with our citizens.

Our Mission - International

The Mongolian rangers are part of a growing network of international rescue teams. We will continuously strive to meet the high standards of training set by this community.

Vision Statement

Background

Mongolia is twice the size of Texas but with only 13% of it's population. We are the world's largest landlocked country. We are a nomadic population with 58% following the grazing herds.

In our country we have drought in summer followed by heavy snow in winter. This can cause serious losses of livestock and human lives. These conditions have undermined hundreds of thousands herders’ livelihoods, who lost most of their animals.

Yearly more than a half a million herders are being stricken with the dzud disaster. The "dzud" are freezing snow blizzards at -30C, known as the "White Death". They claim not only lives of animals but people. The dzud disaster can affect two thirds of our country instantly.

Our herders are dispersed across wide stretches of steppes and mountains. They do not have electricity, cell phones or other means of communications for emergencies. Part of our mission, working with the international community is to develop such equipment. Equipment that will have a world wide application in rescue work.

For a rescuer Mongolia is a logistics nightmare. There are just a few hundred thousand cell phones in our nation of 2,8 million people. Not all areas receive coverage. Some of the many problems facing our team include:

• How does an emergency situation get reported? How does a herdsman notify the Rangers of an emergency when he has no cell phone, no electricity to power a radio system and current locater technology is too expensive.
• How are victims to be located in time?
• How do the Rangers arrive in a timely manner when there are few roads and winter temperatures can drop to -30.
• Mongolia is not a Cospas-Sarsat Participant.
  How is a rescue operation managed when there is no Local Users Terminal (LUT), which receive and process the satellite downlink signal to generate distress alerts, or Mission Control Centers (MCCs) which receive alerts produced by LUTs and forward them to Rescue Coordination Centers (RCCs), Search and Rescue Points Of Contacts (SPOCs) or other MCCs to communicate situation reports to the Ranger Units.
• Satellites available INSAT and GEOS-9 but this one's operation will terminate in 2007.

These are just a few of the problems that the team Founders and members of support teams from the international rescue community will have to solve.