Causes: Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Economic Development, International, International Agricultural Development, International Economic Development, Microfinance
Mission: ETC works with women and children in Nepal to improve health, welfare, and self-sufficiency by building skills that families can pass down to later generations.
Results: Over the course of more than 30 years, ETC's work has benefited at least 20,000 people directly and countless more indirectly. Residents of the areas in which we have worked have benefited from:(1) Improved nutrition and food security: ETC has helped farmers increase their yields significantly, and learn to grow/raise a wider variety of more nutritious foods. (2) Improved educational opportunities: ETC has improved schools both physically and in terms of the quality of education offered. Moreover, teacher job satisfaction and student attendance rates are higher, and student drop-out rates are lower, after ETC has worked in a given school compared to before, and compared to national averages. (3) Increased household incomes: ETC has helped women gain the skills and confidence to start their own businesses (often, but not always, agricultural). They also gain status in the community and are more willing and able to speak up for their own rights, advocate for community improvements, and participate actively in their children's educational processes. (4) Improved public health conditions: ETC has constructed hundreds of sanitary toilets and offered public health training events for thousands of attendees. Chronic diarrhea and other bacterial illnesses are very common, and cause people to miss work and school, but these problems decrease significantly when people have and use sanitary toilets and begin to sanitize their drinking water, wash their hands more frequently, and keep their farm animals separately housed. Beginning in 2020, we have also provided supplies and training related to COVID-19 prevention. A major reason for ETC's success has been that we involve the target population all along, from the planning stages through implementation and evaluation. The residents of our project areas know that their specific needs and situations are being addressed, and they feel a real sense of ownership of the activities and results. This is important for immediate success as well as for long-term sustainability: because the residents are so engaged, the benefits of the work endure long after ETC has left a particular area to begin working in a new set of villages. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our work was necessarily temporarily suspended, but we subsequently began to scale back up in a new-to-us area: four wards of Ramdhuni Municipality in Sunsari District. You can read and view more about this work on our Photos and Publications page, here: https://www. etc-nepal. org/photos-and-publications/.
Target demographics: marginalized and impoverished people, especially women and children
Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 4,000 residents of rural Nepali villages
Geographic areas served: Nepal
Programs: (1) Women's empowerment - activities enable women to gain skills and knowledge to earn more money and make better lives for themselves and their families(2) Children's education - including infrastructure improvement, provision of supplies and equipment, sponsorships to enable impoverished children to attend school, and teacher training(3) Sustainable agricultural development - including provision of supplies and training to help women grow greater quantities of more nutritious food for their families and as an income-generating activityPlease see https://www. etc-nepal. org/photos-and-publications/ for more information about how ETC helps people to make better lives for themselves and their families.
Mission: ETC works with women and children in Nepal to improve health, welfare, and self-sufficiency by building skills that families can pass down to later generations.
Results: Over the course of more than 30 years, ETC's work has benefited at least 20,000 people directly and countless more indirectly. Residents of the areas in which we have worked have benefited from:(1) Improved nutrition and food security: ETC has helped farmers increase their yields significantly, and learn to grow/raise a wider variety of more nutritious foods. (2) Improved educational opportunities: ETC has improved schools both physically and in terms of the quality of education offered. Moreover, teacher job satisfaction and student attendance rates are higher, and student drop-out rates are lower, after ETC has worked in a given school compared to before, and compared to national averages. (3) Increased household incomes: ETC has helped women gain the skills and confidence to start their own businesses (often, but not always, agricultural). They also gain status in the community and are more willing and able to speak up for their own rights, advocate for community improvements, and participate actively in their children's educational processes. (4) Improved public health conditions: ETC has constructed hundreds of sanitary toilets and offered public health training events for thousands of attendees. Chronic diarrhea and other bacterial illnesses are very common, and cause people to miss work and school, but these problems decrease significantly when people have and use sanitary toilets and begin to sanitize their drinking water, wash their hands more frequently, and keep their farm animals separately housed. Beginning in 2020, we have also provided supplies and training related to COVID-19 prevention. A major reason for ETC's success has been that we involve the target population all along, from the planning stages through implementation and evaluation. The residents of our project areas know that their specific needs and situations are being addressed, and they feel a real sense of ownership of the activities and results. This is important for immediate success as well as for long-term sustainability: because the residents are so engaged, the benefits of the work endure long after ETC has left a particular area to begin working in a new set of villages. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our work was necessarily temporarily suspended, but we subsequently began to scale back up in a new-to-us area: four wards of Ramdhuni Municipality in Sunsari District. You can read and view more about this work on our Photos and Publications page, here: https://www. etc-nepal. org/photos-and-publications/.
Target demographics: marginalized and impoverished people, especially women and children
Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 4,000 residents of rural Nepali villages
Geographic areas served: Nepal
Programs: (1) Women's empowerment - activities enable women to gain skills and knowledge to earn more money and make better lives for themselves and their families(2) Children's education - including infrastructure improvement, provision of supplies and equipment, sponsorships to enable impoverished children to attend school, and teacher training(3) Sustainable agricultural development - including provision of supplies and training to help women grow greater quantities of more nutritious food for their families and as an income-generating activityPlease see https://www. etc-nepal. org/photos-and-publications/ for more information about how ETC helps people to make better lives for themselves and their families.
Economic Development
Ithaca
