Photos and Publications
Publications and Documents
Spring 2025 newsletter and appeal
Fifteen Years On, by Linda Farthing
Most recent IRS Form 990 and CPA review
Map showing location of current project area (four adjacent wards of Ramdhuni Municipality: 2, 4, 8, and 9)
Social Media
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Please also visit our YouTube Channel to view our various short videos, including our 2021 year in review series (four parts, each less than two minutes long).
Watch the trailer of the award-winning documentary film Baato !
Photos from our work in Ramdhuni Municipality, Sunsari District
Click on any image to see a larger version and to read the entire caption. Photos by ETC and Save the Earth staff and board members.
From 2025:
Better housing for goats
Balanced diet for farm animals
School supplies distribution
Vermicompost training
First cooperative exec committee meeting!
Mushroom bag assembly
Newly formed cooperative
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Better housing for goats
Yam, a member of Shiba Women's Group (Ramdhuni-Ward 2), participated in a training to learn how to build a goat shed, using locally available materials. Her goats can now easily get off the ground and under cover (important during monsoon season!). Photo from August 2025 -
Balanced diet for farm animals
This lady and all the other participants in our livestock feed prep workshop have learned how to prepare a nutritionally balanced diet for the goats they raise. Photo from July 2025 -
School supplies distribution
Each spring, near the beginning of the Nepali school year, ETC and Save the Earth distribute useful school materials (including uniforms) to hundreds of children in our supported villages. Photo from June 2025 -
Vermicompost training
Farmers in Ramdhuni Municipality received training and support to build frames/pits for worm-based compost-making. Their gardens and veggie farms will benefit for years to come! Photo from May 2025 -
First cooperative exec committee meeting!
These are the executive committee members of the newly formed Paathivara Women Micro Enterprises Cooperative Ltd. in Ramdhuni Ward 2. We are confident that, as with many other cooperatives that ETC has helped form, this one will grow and thrive for years to come! -
Mushroom bag assembly
Mushroom cultivation is popular in rural Nepal - once the initial training and resource costs are covered, it's relatively quick and lucrative to grow mushrooms. ETC and Save the Earth provide the training and starter resources, such as spores, bags, and materials to build mushroom tunnels. -
Newly formed cooperative
This is one of four newly formed, ETC-supported women's cooperatives in Ramdhuni. As with all of the cooperatives ETC has helped launch, the members will have long-term access to mutual financial, educational, and social support.
From 2024:
Morning assembly
Health and sanitation training
Pre-primary teacher workshop
New toilets
New musical instruments
Distributing school supplies
Earth-friendly farming
Toilet construction work in progress
Sarita's kitchen garden
ECE teachers making classroom materials
International Women's Day 2024
A thriving market garden
Mushroom growing
Field trip! (Literally)
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Morning assembly
Morning assembly at Shankar Basic School in Ramdhuni Ward #2 -
Health and sanitation training
Women's group members attending a health and sanitation training in the local CLC (community learning center - launched a couple of years ago by ETC and Save the Earth!). Photo from October 2024 -
Pre-primary teacher workshop
Pre-primary (early childhood ed.) teachers made colorful educational materials for their classrooms. Photo from October 2024 -
New toilets
ETC and STE, in cooperation with Ramdhuni Municipality and local residents, have built dozens of new toilets at Ward 9 homes. Photo from August 2024 -
New musical instruments
Students at Sanischare School enjoy new musical instruments provided by ETC and STE. Photo from August 2024 -
Distributing school supplies
ETC and STE distribute hundreds of backpacks every year to our women's group members' children. Inside the backpacks are school supplies, uniforms, and even basic health and hygiene items like toothpaste. Photo from June 2024 -
Earth-friendly farming
ETC and STE train farmers to create their own pesticides and fertilizers. It's inexpensive, effective, and Earth-friendly! Photo from June 2024 -
Toilet construction work in progress
ETC, in partnership with Ramdhuni Municipality and the recipient families, is supporting the construction of 170 toilets at people's homes this year. Photo from May 2024 -
Sarita's kitchen garden
Sarita, a member of Milijuli Women's Group, is proud of her thriving kitchen garden! Photo from May 2024 -
ECE teachers making classroom materials
Early childhood education teachers make cheerful, colorful classroom educational materials and decorations. Photo from March 2024 -
International Women's Day 2024
Theme: "Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress." Pictured here, one of ETC's women's groups receiving a cash award for successful activities during the past year. Photo from March 2024 -
A thriving market garden
Sawitri Chaudhary's market gardening enterprise is looking great, even in winter! Photo from Jan. 2024 -
Mushroom growing
ETC has provided training and supplies for women's group members to begin growing mushrooms. These are relatively easy and quick to grow, are high in protein, and sell well. Photo from Jan. 2024 -
Field trip! (Literally)
Members of Golchok Women's Group in Ward 8 visited the farms and gardens of Titriban Women's Group (Ward 2) members. This kind of interaction helps members share knowledge and engage in problem-solving. Photo from Jan. 2024
From 2023:
Market gardening
Hands-on creative activities
Selling vegetables at market
WG member's tea and food stand
ETC/STE staff
Goat insurance
Cooperative orientation training
Art workshop
Morning assembly
Monsoon season
Public health project completed!
ECE teachers made stuffed toys
Maternal health care
ETC supports public health initiatives
Business planning training
New playground equipment!
International Women's Day 2023
Tech school scholarships awarded
Mushroom cultivation
Extracurricular activities
Garden check-up
New classroom materials!
Market gardening
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Market gardening
Staff agricultural specialist Ram Narayan visits a women’s group member’s field in which tomatoes, mustard greens, and beans are growing well. Photo from Nov. 2023. -
Hands-on creative activities
Students enjoy making clay objects at Thule Mohar Basic School. Photo from Nov. 2023. -
Selling vegetables at market
Sundar Chaudhary and family can make a good profit selling the vegetables they raised at area markets. Photo from Oct. 2023. -
WG member's tea and food stand
This ETC women's group member has opened a village stand where she prepares and sells tea and food. Photo from Oct. 2023. -
ETC/STE staff
The knowledgeable and hard-working staff of ETC and Save the Earth! Photo from Oct. 2023. -
Goat insurance
Goats and pigs are highly valuable to the families we work with. The animals are tagged and insured (at no cost to the families) to help minimize risk. Photo from Sept. 2023. -
Cooperative orientation training
Each of our 44 women's groups will participate in a multi-day training to help prepare them for launching the four cooperatives in the coming year or so. Photo from Sept. 2023 -
Art workshop
Students enjoyed art instruction and produced many works of their own during a three-day extracurricular workshop held during school holidays. Photo from Aug. 2023 -
Morning assembly
Each school has a morning assembly during which attendance is taken, announcements are made, and students do a bit of stretching and singing before going to their respective classrooms. Photo from Aug. 2023 -
Monsoon season
It's monsoon season in Nepal. Photo from July 2023 -
Public health project completed!
In partnership with Ramdhuni Municipality and the recipient families, ETC has constructed 50 toilets at the homes of people who didn't already have them or whose existing toilets were in unusably poor condition. Photo from July 2023 -
ECE teachers made stuffed toys
Early childhood education teachers in some of ETC's supported classrooms made these adorable stuffed toys for their students. Photo from June 2023 -
Maternal health care
ETC and local health post personnel trained volunteers - including some of our own women's group members - to serve as maternal health care liaisons in their communities. Photo from May 2023 -
ETC supports public health initiatives
ETC partnered with local health post personnel to offer cervical cancer screenings for women in Ramdhuni. Photo from April 2023 -
Business planning training
An enthusiastic group of women participated in our recent business planning training sessions. Photo from March 2023 -
New playground equipment!
The new swings are very popular with the kids at one of ETC's supported schools in Ramdhuni! Photo from March 2023 -
International Women's Day 2023
Gathering in Ward 8, Ramdhuni Municipality for IWD 2023 (March 8th) -
Tech school scholarships awarded
We've recently awarded scholarships to these ten young men and women who will train to become engineers and agricultural technicians! Photo from February 2023 -
Mushroom cultivation
ETC and STE have provided training and resources (including tunnel construction materials) for cultivating mushrooms. These can be grown quickly, year-round, and are a good source of income. Photo from February 2023 -
Extracurricular activities
ETC promotes a variety of extracurricular activities, thus adding elements of fun and friendship-building to school! Photo from January 2023 -
Garden check-up
Our staff members visit women's group members' gardens regularly to offer useful advice and suggest resources. Photo from January 2023 -
New classroom materials!
Everyone loves using the new classroom materials provided by ETC and Save the Earth - they're fun AND educational! Photo from January 2023 -
Market gardening
Many of our women's group members, with our training and support, can grow enough food to sell at local and regional markets - increasing their household incomes by 25% or more in many cases. Photo from January 2023