Empowering Healthy Sleep habits for Children

Who We Are: Our Journey and Mission

The Children’s Sleep Foundation was born from real, on-the-ground experience supporting families across Mongolia.

In 2021, our work began as Sleep Corner, a pioneering platform offering online sleep education, courses, and personalized consultations to mothers navigating the challenges of infant and child sleep. Through this work, we reached hundreds of families and gained deep insight into the realities of sleep within Mongolian households from cultural practices and environmental factors to widespread misconceptions and lack of accessible, evidence-based guidance.

As demand grew, it became increasingly clear that sleep challenges were not isolated issues, but part of a broader public health gap.
In 2023, The Children’s Sleep Foundation was established as Mongolia’s first nonprofit dedicated to pediatric sleep health. This transition marked a critical shift from supporting individual families to addressing sleep as a national issue requiring education, advocacy, and long-term systemic change.

Grounded in years of direct experience and informed by the lived realities of Mongolian parents, our work now extends beyond consultations to building public awareness, developing practical resources, and laying the foundation for healthier sleep practices across future generations.

Today, Sleep Corner continues to operate as our foundational platform for direct family support and education. To explore our courses, consultations, and practical tools for parents, visit the Sleep Corner digital platforms and website at thesleepcorner.com.

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Understanding Our Commitment to Children’s Health

Our initiatives have directly improved sleep practices among families, reducing instances of associated health risks and promoting better developmental outcomes for Mongolia’s children.

Our Mission: Prioritizing Pediatric Sleep Health

We aim to advance pediatric sleep health in Mongolia through education, advocacy, and research, ensuring every child thrives through healthy sleep habits.

Our Vision: A well rested nation

We envision a Mongolia where every child enjoys the quality of life, cognitive performance, and physical wellbeing that restorative sleep makes possible, upheld by families and communities who understand why sleep matters.

Our Framework: Sleep Health Starts with Behavior

Healthy sleep is not simply a medical issue. In the vast majority of cases, it is a behavioral one. The Children’s Sleep Foundation approaches pediatric sleep health through the lens of sleep hygiene.
Our Sleep Health Pyramid provides a structured framework for understanding how these factors work together, empowering families with the knowledge to make lasting change at home.

Our Approach: Rooted in Culture, Designed for Reality

Our approach to sleep health is grounded in both evidence and cultural understanding. We aim to bridge the gap in sleep health knowledge through practical, culturally relevant solutions recognizing the lack of educational infrastructure and support within both the healthcare and education sectors.

About our founder

Founded by a leading pediatric sleep consultant in Mongolia, The Children’s Sleep Foundation builds on years of direct experience working with families through Sleep Corner. Through this work, Mrs. Nominzul has recognized that cultural influences on sleep and child health are often overlooked particularly in settings where evidence-based guidance and educational support are limited. With a multidisciplinary background in business and design management, her work sits at the intersection of culture, behavior, and public health by driving forward a more culturally-aware approach to sleep health in Mongolia.

At the heart of this work is also her experience as a mother, where the journey began. Navigating the challenges of her own child’s sleep revealed firsthand how limited, conflicting, and culturally mismatched existing guidance could be. What started as a personal search for answers evolved into a deeper mission—to ensure that other families would have access to practical, trustworthy, and culturally relevant support that she once struggled to find.

Meet the whole team behind the mission

ABOUT THE TEAM

ABOUT MONGOLIA

Mongolia is more than a dot on the map. It is a country of extraordinary complexity, potential, and people.

Mongolia sits at the heart of Asia, landlocked between two of the world’s most powerful nations. Russia lies to the north and China to the south. That geography alone makes it one of the most strategically significant countries in the region, a fact that international organizations, development agencies, and global health bodies are increasingly recognizing.

With a population of just over three million people spread across the world’s most sparsely populated country, Mongolia punches above its weight. It holds some of the world’s largest untapped mineral reserves, a rapidly urbanizing capital in Ulaanbaatar, and a young population with enormous potential. At the same time, Mongolia remains a lower-middle-income country navigating the complex pressures of rapid development, economic dependency on its two giant neighbors, and significant gaps in public health infrastructure.

That combination of strategic importance, mineral wealth, geopolitical sensitivity, and real development need makes Mongolia a compelling destination for international partnership and funding. Organizations working here are not working in isolation. They are working at the intersection of global interests and local need.

For those of us building institutions in Mongolia, that context matters. The Children’s Sleep Foundation is not just addressing a health gap. We are contributing to the broader project of building a stronger, healthier, and more capable Mongolian society. One well-rested child at a time.

If you are visiting this site from abroad and want to understand why Mongolia deserves your attention and support, we hope this gives you a starting point. We would love to tell you more.

Learn more about mongolia

Mongolia has a rich history, a distinct culture, and a story that is still being written. If you would like to explore further, these resources offer a good starting point.

Go Mongolia — Mongolia’s official government tourism and investment portal www.gomongolia.gov.mn Culture, geography, investment opportunities, and travel information from the Mongolian government directly.
United Nations in Mongolia — Development, health, and humanitarian context mongolia.un.org The UN’s work in Mongolia across 24 agencies — useful for understanding the country’s development priorities and international partnerships.
UB Post — Mongolia’s leading English language newspaper www.ubpost.mn Founded in 1996, the UB Post has become Mongolia’s leading English language news outlet, providing comprehensive coverage of social, economic, and political developments.
World Bank Mongolia — Economic and development data www.worldbank.org/ext/en/country/mongolia Economic reports, poverty data, and development projects. Particularly useful for international funders wanting to understand Mongolia’s economic context.
National Statistics Office of Mongolia — Official population and health data www.1212.mn/en Mongolia’s official statistical database covering population, health, education, and economy. Useful for anyone wanting verified data about the country.