Caring for those who sustain our Earth with simplicity and beauty

The mission: NOMADICARE supports the sustainability and cultural survival of nomadic peoples, harmonizes traditional and modern medicine, and documents nomadic ways and heart songs for future generations. View the latest slide presentation on the Mongolian projects. (in a separate window)

Educational Film Tour at Universities, USA

• Presents Gobi Women’s Song, 73-minute documentary on nomadic life


• Increases awareness about twenty-first century nomadic life in Gobi Desert, Mongolia


• Discusses climate change and relationship to Gobi life


• Shares need for improved nomad's health options

Film Production, Hovsgol, Mongolia and Vermont, USA

• Produces In the Shadow of Shamans, documentary on the life of Reindeer Herders


• Shoots footage of Reindeer Herders' lifestyle and beliefs


• Focuses on impact of climate change, politics, environment, and globalization


• Edits video of Mongolia's Dukha Reindeer Herders' life

Traditional and Modern Medicine, South Gobi, Mongolia

• Supports traditional medicine training for rural Mongolian doctors


• Supplies modern tools and medical laboratories to rural hospitals


• Reintroduces Mongolian Medicine forbidden during Soviet period, 1920-1990


• Adds culturally appropriate, sustainable, effective methods to present practice


• Impacts healthcare for 50,000 nomads

Laboratory Equipment and Supplies to Manlai Sum, South Gobi

Taiga People Health, Hovsgol, Mongolia

• Facilitates strategic plan for Dukha Reindeer Herders' health


• Creates a health database of all reindeer herders


• Increases awareness of public health issues to herders


• Provides vitamins, medicines and supplies


• Advocates for health services with the Mongolian providers

Dukha People--Reindeer Herders--Meeting in Tepee