Scouts Australia aims to collect 10,000 blankets by September!

Scouts Australia International is proud to announce the 'Blankets for Mongolia' project! This project will assist MongoliAid, a Queensland-registered charity, to collect and deliver 10,000 blankets and other medical equipment to Mongolia within the next 18 months. The blankets are earmarked for school dormitories and hospitals within six provinces in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

Mongolia is high, cold, and windy, with short summers and long, cold winters. Temperatures drop as low as ?30°C in January, and the country's capital city Ulan Bator has the lowest average temperature of any national capital in the world.

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