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6
British Bahá’í honoured by Mongolia
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A British Bahá’í has been awarded one of the highest honours in Mongolia.
Lois Lambert has been named a State Honoured Citizen. She is only the second non-Mongolian to have been given this award.
Mrs Lambert has been conducting moral education classes for students for the past two years at a medical college owned and administered by Professor Byambaagiin Batsereedene, who was until recently the Minister for Health.
As many as 80 students have studied materials on moral development with Mrs Lambert as well as watching and discussing films on social and environmental issues.
Along with the medal as a State Honoured Citizen, Mrs Lambert was presented with a certificate on a silver plate set in rose wood with the inscription: “In recognition of your invaluable intellectual contributions to the health sector of Mongolia through the training of medical professionals utilizing a positive participatory approach, excellent communication skills and demonstrating a high professional knowledge and exemplary ethics.”
Mrs Lambert – whose grandmother became a Bahá’í in the early years of the 20th century – arrived in Mongolia with her husband David in 1992, just three years after students and intellectuals had staged the country’s first demonstrations to challenge the hard-line single party system. David Lambert was awarded an MBE in HM the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2003 for his services to the development of English language studies in Mongolia.