FMT in partnership with The Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) brings you Covid-19 “healers” from Mongolia.

The Rainbow Cover Project, founded in 2019, helps children living in Mongolia’s rural districts.

Artists volunteer to help provide equipment for children to design, draw and create art, with the goal to improve the mental health of these children and deepen the relationship between them and their parents.

Originally, Rainbow Cover chose a team of different street graffiti artists and designers from Ulaanbaatar to paint a series of murals in the city of Murun, 900km from the capital.

The Covid-19 pandemic postponed the project as children were required to stay at home from February.

Seven months later, Mongolia has reopened.

Rainbow Cover Project volunteers painted several murals on school walls, on the streets, and other locations around the city.

While this art was new for many residents, they were eventually thankful, and they promised to both preserve what was created and add more street art in the future.

Born and based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Suren Hash works as a graphic designer, lettering artist, print pattern designer and printmaker. She graduated as a printmaking artist in Bologna, Italy. She started taking photos in 2008 and has learned the art of photography by herself. She has participated in several different exhibitions and also published two books of her work in 2019. View her profile here.

‘The Other Hundred Healers’ is an initiative by the non-profit organisation GIFT. The 240-page, full-colour, hardcover book can be purchased here at US$40 per copy for a minimum order of 20 copies.