The Jeweled Horse
In this 46th entry of my public journal, I share an update about a non-profit I got involved with this year.
Dear friends,
Earlier this year, I joined the board of The Jeweled Horse Foundation, a new non-profit supporting education, culture, and humanitarian aid in Mongolia—a cause close to my heart.
I’d love to share why I think Mongolia is a special place, the projects The Jeweled Horse is working on, and how you can help make a difference.
Discovering Mongolia
In the summer of 2019, I visited Mongolia, a trip that changed my life. Mongolia is extraordinary — the country is vast, rugged, and beautiful. It’s a mostly Buddhist country, peaceful today despite the reputation of its famous leader, Genghis Khan, who conquered much of Asia and Europe in the 13th century. Mongolian people have preserved their unique identity and nomadic culture, while being geographically sandwiched between two global powers, China and Russia.
What made this trip more special was the opportunity to visit the land of my ancestors. I’m half Mongolian, though I had always identified more with my Jewish half. Visiting Mongolia was a surprising awakening. Learning more about its people and history had a powerful effect on me. I came home feeling more complete, more like myself. I didn’t feel any less Jewish, but I did feel more Mongolian.
Jeweled Horse Projects
Humanitarian Disaster Response: Our Emergency Fund provides critical aid to nomadic families during catastrophic winters (known as Dzud), when extreme weather threatens their livestock and livelihoods. The fund also supports families recovering from floods, landslides, and sandstorms.
Compassion Training Mongolia: This evidence-based program (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training® - CBCT®) improves mental wellness, resilience, and empathy. In 2024, free training was provided to traffic police officers, university students, teachers, and to staff in hospitals, a senior center and an addiction center.
SEE Learning® Mongolia: This K-12 education initiative teaches emotional, social, and ethical intelligence, fostering happier, more compassionate students. This program is being rolled out across all of Mongolia’s public and private schools. Results have shown significant improvement in the children’s feelings about schoolwork, intrinsic prosocial motivation, empathy, perspective-taking, and attention effectiveness. Assistance is needed to complete rollout across the vast country.
Book Translations: Diluv Hutugthu Foundation, an educational organization based in Ulaanbaatar, is translating select books into Mongolian language
How You Can Help
If you’re interested in supporting The Jeweled Horse, you can make a donation here: https://jeweledhorse.org/donate/. We are entirely funded by small donors and appreciate any contribution, no matter the size, especially in this first year as we are just getting started.
A Note to My Readers
I started this substack in December 2022 as an experiment to see if developing a writing habit would help clarify my thinking and/or provide other benefits. You can read about my original intentions in my first post or my more recent reflections after sticking with it for a year.
I write about twice a month and share musings, meditations, and links to things I’m finding interesting as I build out a farcaster-native media company, a modern technology consulting company, raise my kids, and have fun creating and learning in the worlds of crypto, tech, finance, science and wellness.
Thank you for supporting my writing and journey. If you’d like to get in touch you can reply to me here or find me on X and farcaster.
Until next time, keep putting good into the world. —adrienne🌏❤️