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Welcome to the SkipLizard Mercy Corps donation page!
Follow two good ol' Texas boys as they scamper halfway around the world with no resources beyond their own wits and a car best suited for a sledgehammer and a pep rally, all for the sake of charity and wild adventure.
In July 2007, we leave London as part of the Mongol Rally, with no backup and even less experience. 7 mountain ranges, 3 deserts, 20 countries, and 10000 miles of poor to non-existent roads later, we will arrive in the middle of Mongolia.
Follow our journey at SkipLizard.com. BUT FIRST...
Sponsor us!
With your help, we will reach the "Red Hero" having raised loads of cash for two great charities and touched lives a world over. The main charity is Mercy Corps Mongolia (description below). We are also sponsoring The Christina Noble Children's Foundation. Check out that donation page at skiplizard_cncf.
Consider our causes, dig deep, give generously, and know that you've helped fantastic organizations doing work to help people with no other options.
You can figure out your conversion from dollars to pounds sterling here.
Mercy Corps Mongolia
Mercy Corps Mongolia supports rural communities to meet their economic and social needs, helping individuals, families and communities to become more self-sufficient, diversified in their production, and and better linked to local, regional and national markets.
Over the past five years Mercy Corps Mongolia has established a strong reputation across the vast Gobi region, and continues to work with business associations and local organizations to ensure a robust economy that preserves ancient traditions.
Mercy Corps has a number of programs in Mongolia:
The Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative (Gobi Initiative) is a rural business development program that aims to assist people in the Gobi region to undertake comprehensive measures that accelerate and sustain market-led economic growth and expansion.
The Training, Advocacy and Networking Project (TAN) works to strengthen civic action in rural Mongolia by utilizing local resources to improve service delivery. The aim is to help these rural regions build effective, collaborative and professional civil society organization sectors and enhance community-driven activity for social benefit.
The Rural Agribusiness Support Program (RASP) is a rural business development project that works to create opportunity for greater agribusiness development in eleven aimags in central and southern Mongolia. The aim is to diversify and expand rural businesses critical to Mongolia's agriculture sector.
Our Motivation
This charity is the main focus of the Mongol Rally fundraising initiative. It is a comprehensive effort to bring people in rural Mongolian regions together in a community effort to stay afloat in a progressive business world while still preserving the sacred traditions of herdmen in the Mongol countryside.
Visit Mercy Corps Mongolia for more specifics, and help us support this great cause. Note that Mercy Corps Scotland is the European headquarters. Although donations will route through them first, they will all end up in Mongolia.
Follow two good ol' Texas boys as they scamper halfway around the world with no resources beyond their own wits and a car best suited for a sledgehammer and a pep rally, all for the sake of charity and wild adventure.
In July 2007, we leave London as part of the Mongol Rally, with no backup and even less experience. 7 mountain ranges, 3 deserts, 20 countries, and 10000 miles of poor to non-existent roads later, we will arrive in the middle of Mongolia.
Follow our journey at SkipLizard.com. BUT FIRST...
Sponsor us!
With your help, we will reach the "Red Hero" having raised loads of cash for two great charities and touched lives a world over. The main charity is Mercy Corps Mongolia (description below). We are also sponsoring The Christina Noble Children's Foundation. Check out that donation page at skiplizard_cncf.
Consider our causes, dig deep, give generously, and know that you've helped fantastic organizations doing work to help people with no other options.
You can figure out your conversion from dollars to pounds sterling here.
Mercy Corps Mongolia
Mercy Corps Mongolia supports rural communities to meet their economic and social needs, helping individuals, families and communities to become more self-sufficient, diversified in their production, and and better linked to local, regional and national markets.
Over the past five years Mercy Corps Mongolia has established a strong reputation across the vast Gobi region, and continues to work with business associations and local organizations to ensure a robust economy that preserves ancient traditions.
Mercy Corps has a number of programs in Mongolia:
The Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative (Gobi Initiative) is a rural business development program that aims to assist people in the Gobi region to undertake comprehensive measures that accelerate and sustain market-led economic growth and expansion.
The Training, Advocacy and Networking Project (TAN) works to strengthen civic action in rural Mongolia by utilizing local resources to improve service delivery. The aim is to help these rural regions build effective, collaborative and professional civil society organization sectors and enhance community-driven activity for social benefit.
The Rural Agribusiness Support Program (RASP) is a rural business development project that works to create opportunity for greater agribusiness development in eleven aimags in central and southern Mongolia. The aim is to diversify and expand rural businesses critical to Mongolia's agriculture sector.
Our Motivation
This charity is the main focus of the Mongol Rally fundraising initiative. It is a comprehensive effort to bring people in rural Mongolian regions together in a community effort to stay afloat in a progressive business world while still preserving the sacred traditions of herdmen in the Mongol countryside.
Visit Mercy Corps Mongolia for more specifics, and help us support this great cause. Note that Mercy Corps Scotland is the European headquarters. Although donations will route through them first, they will all end up in Mongolia.