Enkhuun founded Breathe Mongolia - Clean Air Coalition in 2019 as a nonprofit organisation working to end Mongolia’s air pollution crisis through grassroots outreach and policy advocacy.
Enkhuun won the Lead2030 challenge sponsored by AstraZeneca in 2022, and used the grant funding to expand her team and capacity to act on the ground in Mongolia. At this time, Breathe Mongolia worked with 28 families to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, monitor air quality in their homes, and supported 67 children with neurodevelopmental assessments. Its workshops have impacted over 500 young people.
Since 2022, Breathe Mongolia has been an annual recipient of an AstraZeneca grant. Its most recent programme, in 2024, has focussed on preventing carbon monoxide poisoning by giving vulnerable people resources and toolkits on how to minimise the risk of being poisoned, reaching over a thousand households. Breathe Mongolia also established a capacity building programme on environmental journalism for 21 journalists across Mongolia, while its Earth School has trained 580 students through four months of environmental knowledge and climate action.
Additionally, the organisation ran smaller, intensive capacity-building programmes for high schools, with eight fellows trained on climate and clean air, while the Clean Air Social Entrepreneurs programme focuses on creating social change and career pathways with 20 students. Breathe Mongolia has also scaled its advocacy campaigns significantly. It works with Air Quality AI by providing data and running simulations, while also working with Mongolian government ministries to understand their action plans and ensure alignment between these action plans and the clean air targets the government has set for itself.
Breathe Mongolia has also worked with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute to translate their interactive platform and hone it for a Mongolian context, while simultaneously building collaborations with other civil society actors in the country. AstraZeneca’s support has supported Breathe Mongolia by strengthening its team capacity to act for better health outcomes for Mongolians.
