Former President N.Enkhbayar, who heads an NGO called Countryside Development Center, is visiting the countryside with a team to meet herders and other citizens in areas badly hit by the severe winter. They plan to cover more than 2,000 km in 60 soums of Uvurkhangai, Arkhangai and Khuvsgul provinces. The team will distribute aid material worth MNT 70 million to 1,240 families, each getting things like candles, matches, medicine and food costing about MNT 50,000.

Apart from this, experts in the team will offer advice on how best to survive the dzud. Members of the NGO include MPs, scientists, researchers and livestock husbandry professionals. Its main goal is to bring intensive economic development to the provinces. Executive Director of the NGO D.Nergui said it works to encourage government policies for regional development to ensure a better life for herders.

“We have planned many programs on environmental and food safety and will cooperate with scientific institutions, related ministry and international organizations for their implementation,” he said.