We are front line RAPID Response rescuers and normally deal with disasters like earthquakes.

The 2010 White Death Disaster that has hit this small and poor nation has touched our hearts and the hearts of many others.

We want to try using our community pairing concepts to help the herders in Mongolia.

Community Pairing is pro-active TEERS-international program linking organizations, individuals, as well as communities with their global counterparts.

In 2000 Mongolia lost 56% of all livestock to the "Dzud" or White Death. More that 18 million animals froze to death that year.

In 2010 they have already lost 3.7 million and current estimates say it could go as high as 20 million this year.

We want to try to reduce future losses.  We can not change the weather.  What we can do is get a better cattle breed to the herders.

That breed is the Galloway.   They love cold weather, have a coat like the muskox and eat fodder more like sheep. They produce excellent milk and the very best of all beef.

The Community Pairing Project

We are going to try to arrange a place for you to make donations. Those donations will be used to buy bull semen so that we can cross breed the Galloway with the native Mongolian cows.  The cross bred Galloway will have a better chance of surviving the next Dzud.

One straw of frozen semen costs $20.  For communities or groups that donate $1000 or more, enough semen for 100 cows, those calves will be given a herd designation in the donor's name.   If Coors employees raised $1000 or more the herd would be called the Coors herd and all future offspring would be called Coors-animal name or number as part of the birth registration record.

Contact us if you want to help.