Photos and Publications
Publications and Documents
Fall 2025 newsletter and appeal
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
Follow ETC on Facebook and Instagram (@ETC_Nepal). We usually post weekly. Still getting up and running on Bluesky.
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).
New video, November 2025: Meet Dayamanti! (with thanks to Nigam Bhandari and Cryptid Films)
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 2026:
Chicks for distribution to women's group members
Nirmala raises goats
Handwriting practice
Packing mushrooms for sale
Sangita's new business!
Ward 8 women's cooperative officers
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Chicks for distribution to women's group members
These chicks will be distributed among the members of Pragatasil Women's Group. Many women raise chickens for eggs and meat, both for their own families' consumption and to sell at market. Photo from March 2026 -
Nirmala raises goats
Nirmala, an ETC women's group member, has been raising goats for a couple of years now. She learned what kind of feed is best for them and how to construct the feeding trough! Photo from March 2026 -
Handwriting practice
This young student at Rajeshwori Basic School is practicing her handwriting. She's done such a good job! Photo from February 2026 -
Packing mushrooms for sale
ETC supports women farmers with mushroom cultivation training and supplies. Mushrooms can be harvested multiple times per year and tend to sell well. Photo from February 2026 -
Sangita's new business!
Many of our women's group members start their own small businesses. Sangita, pictured here, shows off her certificate from the municipality for her tea and snacks shop. Photo from January 2026 -
Ward 8 women's cooperative officers
The recently formed cooperatives in Sunsari are going strong! Pictured here, the officers of the Ward 8 cooperative are meeting to do the books. Photo from January 2026
From 2025:
Women's cooperative officers hard at work
Snack preparation for income generation
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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Women's cooperative officers hard at work
Officers of the recently formed women's cooperative in Ward 8 meet in the cooperative office to go over the financials and other administrative topics. Based on past experience, we are confident that this cooperative will support local women's financial and social needs for many years to come! Photo from Dec. 2025 -
Snack preparation for income generation
These women were among the first to participate in our recent snack preparation training workshops. Led by a renowned chef in the region, this opportunity provided these women with the skills to earn extra money by catering meetings and events. Photo from Sept. 2025 -
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.