Mongolia has a very special daughter. Her name is Madison Naidan. She is a dynamic young woman from the Darkhan region of Mongolia.
When she entered this world her mother named her Madison. Her name means the Eternal or Heavenly Flower. This Eternal Flower is becoming a natural leader in today's Mongolia.
The fifth eldest in a family of eight children, consisting of 5 brothers and two other sisters. Her parents are traditional Mongolian ranchers rearing both horses and sheep. Of the eight children in her family, three have already graduated from university, three others are still studying various fields. They are the first children in the history of the family to graduate from university.
As far back as mNaidan can remember she has had a keen sense of justice. She has wanted to be a lawyer since she was a very young child (around 4 or 5). She felt that law was her calling because she saw things that were wrong in the world and knew that the study of laws would help her to change those things.
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In 1998 she graduated as the top student in her city of Darkhan and easily passed her university entrance exams, however, she later failed in her first attempt at National University Law School. She had passed her entrance exams but refused to pay the bribe to gain entrance. Determined to study law in a few years she tried again choosing the Law School at University of Chinggis Khan. They did not ask for a bribe, she is majoring in Criminal Law.
In 2003 a severe case of pneumonia almost took her life. She required emergency surgery to drain her fluid filled lungs taking more than 2 liters of fluid from one lung. Her determination to live and continue her life's goal saw her rapid recovery.
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In 2004 Madison was the Mongolian National Student Leader and in 2005 won the Gold Medal as the top woman student in UlaanBaatar, the nation's capital.
In 2006, in a National competition between all of the Mongolian law universities, she won first place. Her winning brief was about a corruption and bribery scandal. Something she is passionately against. She stands solidly against corruption and bribery as their existence affects her country's future domestically and internationally. Naidan's Law has a special place for you to report corruption called - Publish What You Pay. It is her hope that when officials know their names may become public record they will not be as eager to ask for a bribe.
In 2006 mNaidan founded Mongolia's first Open and Distance Legal Services (ODLS), a national legal aide service using the power of the internet to take legal aide to the remote areas of Mongolia and run by Law students and their Professors. Her new service won immediate support from the international legal community.
In early 2006 mNaidan began working with the international rescue community to form Mongolia's first volunteer NGO National and International Rescue Team. In mid-October Mongolia received acceptance and approval from the international rescue community. She became the team's first President. Mongolia sits, like the hub of a wheel, in a position to be able to respond to a wide geographic area. Her project has received approval and support from international teams in Canada and Turkey.
To better understand and learn politics she maintains an active roll in the Student Congress at her university and on a national level. A champion for the Right's of Disadvantaged Children and Women's Rights. She campaigns against, and councils, victims of family violence. She has had great success in this area.
Despite what may seem like a full academic schedule, she has had time to learn foreign languages and speaks Japanese, Russian, and English as well as her native Mongolian languages.
Her dreams and plans for the future include going to Canada to learn more English and one day to complete a law degree there. Her long range plan is to translate Canadian Law books and precedents into Mongolian so that they may be used to teach in the universities of Mongolia and be available to Mongolian lawyers wishing to look at Canadian case history and precedents. She has chosen Canada because she feels its bilingual legal system is one of the better legal systems in the world. To know her is to know she will attain this goal.
She has been described by one of her professors as ".. very active and very intelligent. She is an exceptional woman." mNaidan's dynamic personality is powered by a warm and loving heart. She is, to the very core, a humanitarian.
On September 28, 2006 mNaidan collapsed while at a friend's birthday party and was rushed to hospital in Darkhan in critical condition. The pneumonia was back and this time she was not expected to live. The doctors had found a lung tumor pressing against her heart. They believe the benign tumor was caused by fly ash from Darkhan's coal fired industry. Her family was called to the hospital to be by her side in the morning before the operation. She was very weak. With a lot of effort an international team of surgeons traveled the 300 kilometers from Ulaan Baatar, one of the surgeons was from China. The surgery was successful.
The story of a future leader, I assure you, does not end here......
About M Naidan 
