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Fall 2022 newsletter and appeal
Map showing location of current project area (four adjacent wards of Ramdhuni Municipality: 2, 4, 8, and 9)
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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 2023:
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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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
From 2022:
New classroom materials!
Home visits for healthy livestock
Abundant and profitable garden
Goat!
Seedling nursery
Getting ready to sell crafts!
A peek inside a classroom
Group management training
Children's Day
Child clubs are up and running!
Organic pesticide production
Kitchen garden seed distribution
Classroom conditions
Studious girl
Poultry raising
Math and science teacher training
New CLC!
School supplies!
Engaging the parents
A fresh look
Indigenous craft production
Classroom materials for hands-on learning
Market day
Kitchen gardens are thriving
Container gardens - practical for everyone
ECD classroom adopting best practices
Happy 112th International Women's Day!
Pre-primary teacher training
ECD classroom
Market gardening: cauliflower
One of our three demonstration farms
Say cheese!
Outdoor class, Shehara Basic School
Toilet construction
Income-generating activities
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New classroom materials!
These early education teachers (at right, wearing pink) and some of their students are examining new puzzles, shape sorters, and other learning materials for their classroom. Photo from Dec. 2022 -
Home visits for healthy livestock
Our livestock specialist visits women's group members' homes to check up on the health and well-being of the animals, and to provide medicine and advice. Photo from Nov. 2022 -
Abundant and profitable garden
This women's group member, like many of her peers, has grown enough produce in her garden to sell the extra at market - an important addition to household income. Photo from Nov. 2022 -
Goat!
This lady and many others are raising goats, with the help of ETC and STE, for nutrition and income. Photo from Nov. 2022 -
Seedling nursery
The seedlings from this nursery (note the handy "pots"!) will be distributed to our women's group members who have started their own market gardening businesses. Photo from Oct. 2022 -
Getting ready to sell crafts!
This lady participated in our handcraft training in the spring, and is now able to make lovely baskets to sell at market for extra income. Photo from Oct. 2022 -
A peek inside a classroom
This classroom, like so many in our project area, can use furniture and educational materials - and ETC and Save the Earth are able and willing to help! Photo from Oct. 2022 -
Group management training
Women's group officers participate in a team-building exercise at one of our group management training sessions. Photo from Sept. 2022 -
Children's Day
These girls are enjoying the Children's Day 2022 celebration at their school! Photo from Sept. 2022 -
Child clubs are up and running!
ETC and Save the Earth help establish child clubs, through which a variety of fun and enriching extracurricular activities will take place. The clubs will be run by the students with a little help from their teachers. Photo from August 2022 -
Organic pesticide production
Our women's group members learn to produce and use organic pesticides. This improves their crop yields without damaging the environment! Photo from August 2022 -
Kitchen garden seed distribution
ETC and Save the Earth have recently finished distributing the latest round of seeds to our 1,000+ women's group members. As the monsoon season draws to a close, they'll be able to plant these seeds in their kitchen gardens and harvest the produce in a few months. Photo from August 2022 -
Classroom conditions
Many classrooms lack basic equipment and furniture. Thanks to our children's education and classroom sponsors, ETC and Save the Earth will improve the physical environment in Ramdhuni's schools during the coming years! Photo from August 2022 -
Studious girl
This young student is working hard! Now that schools are consistently open again, she and her classmates will all benefit from regular instruction and attendance. Photo from July 2022 -
Poultry raising
This ETC women's group member feeding her chicks has been supported by ETC and Save the Earth. Livestock raising is an excellent way to ensure food security and income generation. Photo from July 2022 -
Math and science teacher training
ETC supports best-practice-based teacher training for teachers at all levels - something they probably wouldn't otherwise have access to in rural Nepal. Photo from June 2022 -
New CLC!
These young ladies are already making good use of the new ETC-supported Community Learning Centre in Ward 8 of Ramdhuni Municipality. At the CLCs, one can find printed resources and space for studying and reading. Photo from June 2022 -
School supplies!
ETC and Save the Earth packed hundreds of backpacks full of useful school supplies, for distribution to our women's group members' children. Photo from May 2022 -
Engaging the parents
Parental involvement is so important to ensuring that kids are enrolled, attending, and truly learning. ETC and Save the Earth hold multiple events every year to encourage parents' active engagement. Photo from May 2022 -
A fresh look
During the spring break, ETC and Save the Earth provided paint and supplies, and parents provided the labor, to spruce up the village schools. Photo from May 2022 -
Indigenous craft production
Fifteen ETC women's group members are receiving training and marketing support to produce and sell indigenous crafts. This is a new and exciting income-generating opportunity for them! Photo from May 2022 -
Classroom materials for hands-on learning
ETC and Save the Earth distributed classroom materials (games, musical instruments, etc.) for use in Ramdhuni schools. Photo from May 2022 -
Market day
This family is preparing to take some recently harvested produce to sell at their area market. Photo from April 2022 -
Kitchen gardens are thriving
This ETC women's group member is one of more than 1,000 who have received training and resources to grow kitchen gardens year-round. Photo from April 2022 -
Container gardens - practical for everyone
Landless women may be able to borrow small plots from their women's group peers for kitchen gardens, but can also grow container gardens using readily available tubs, large plastic feed/rice bags, and even repurposed bottles! This is also great for flood-prone areas. Photo from March 2022 -
ECD classroom adopting best practices
The early childhood development (pre-k/kindergarten) teacher here at Shivnagar Secondary School has participated in our training and is incorporating more creative activities into her students' days. Here they are drawing a still life and conversing among themselves. Photo from March 2022 -
Happy 112th International Women's Day!
Theme: "Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow." Photo from March 2022 -
Pre-primary teacher training
More than 20 pre-k/kindergarten teachers participated in three days of practical training sponsored by ETC. Photo from March 2022 -
ECD classroom
The buildings are for the most part structurally sound, but there is great need for classroom materials, furniture, and teacher training. Photo from Feb. 2022 -
Market gardening: cauliflower
Four dozen ETC women's group members have already received training and supplies to start their own market gardening businesses. We'll offer this for more women in the months and years to come! Photo from Feb. 2022 -
One of our three demonstration farms
These venues offer a convenient location for practical, hands-on horticultural training. Photo from Feb. 2022 -
Say cheese!
These young students at BP Saraswoti Basic School hammed it up for the camera! Photo from Jan. 2022 -
Outdoor class, Shehara Basic School
It's common practice for classes to meet outside when the weather is nice enough, and when it may in fact be chillier inside! Photo from Jan. 2022 -
Toilet construction
When the schools aren't open, ETC can still help by supporting the construction of new sanitary toilets. These lovely tiles are locally sourced and easy to keep clean. Photo from Jan. 2022 -
Income-generating activities
This ETC women's group member is among those who already have been able to sell excess produce (potatoes, in this case) at a local market! Photo from Jan. 2022
From 2021:
Morning assembly
Seedling distribution
Demonstration farm prep
Market gardening training
Any available space can grow food!
Prenatal health and nutrition support
Women's group management training
Schools are open again!
Agricultural resource distribution
Practical agricultural training
Group management training
Students studying together at home
Schools are still closed, but teachers are visiting students
Tree planting
New women's groups receiving masks and soap
Promoting mask usage
Fruit tree sapling distribution
WG members attending ward meeting
A thriving kitchen garden
Microcredit fund management
COVID prevention
Seed money
Sahera Women's Group leader at seedling nursery
Women's group members receive kitchen garden seedlings
Materials distribution at school
Everyone loves new school supplies!
Weekly market
Livestock training is beginning
Ducklings distributed to women farmers
Horticultural training has begun
Leader Farmer of Karma Women's Group
Ram Janaki School
Women's group formation
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Morning assembly
Morning assembly outside at Saraswoti Basic School, Ward 4, Ramdhuni Municipality. Photo from Dec. 2021 -
Seedling distribution
A Leader Farmer distributes vegetable seedlings to her women's group peers. Photo from Dec. 2021 -
Demonstration farm prep
This demonstration farm will be the venue for many hands-on, practical agricultural training activities in years to com. Photo from Dec. 2021 -
Market gardening training
ETC has provided training and resources for 50 women to start market gardening enterprises, growing such crops as cabbage, cauliflower, ginger, onions, and garlic. Photo from Nov. 2021 -
Any available space can grow food!
Women whose families own little or no land can use any small, scattered spaces available to them to grow their kitchen gardens. Photo from Nov. 2021 -
Prenatal health and nutrition support
ETC is presently supporting 16 pregnant women by providing health information and nutritional support. We also encourage them to make good use of their local health posts. Photo from Nov. 2021 -
Women's group management training
All 44 women's groups have received, or will receive, training to help them continue to run the groups effectively and indefinitely. Photo from Oct. 2021 -
Schools are open again!
A Ramdhuni classroom, late Sept. 2021 -
Agricultural resource distribution
All 1,000+ of our women's group members receive seeds and tools for their kitchen gardens. Photo from Sept. 2021 -
Practical agricultural training
Hands-on training ensures that the knowledge will be well understood and consistently used in the future. Photo from Sept. 2021 -
Group management training
Our women's group members gain skills to help them manage the groups after ETC has moved on to work in other villages. Photo from Sept. 2021 -
Students studying together at home
They're working hard to keep up with their studies until they can go back to school, Aug. 2021 -
Schools are still closed, but teachers are visiting students
Many teachers are going to children's homes to teach them in small groups, Aug. 2021 -
Tree planting
We've distributed tree seedlings for planting at Ramdhuni Secondary School, Aug. 2021 -
New women's groups receiving masks and soap
ETC/Save the Earth continues to support COVID prevention in Ramdhuni Municipality, and in our wards, the population is taking it very seriously and wearing their masks, Aug. 2021 -
Promoting mask usage
In partnership with the municipality and other local organizations, ETC/Save the Earth is offering COVID prevention training and continues to distribute masks and soap, Aug. 2021 -
Fruit tree sapling distribution
ETC distributed mango, lichee, and jackfruit tree saplings to members of four women's groups, July 2021 -
WG members attending ward meeting
Members of ETC's women's groups attended a ward-level government meeting to share information about our activities, July 2021 -
A thriving kitchen garden
An ETC women's group member in Ramdhuni shows her thriving kitchen garden, June 2021 -
Microcredit fund management
Women's group members distributing their self-managed microcredit funds, June 2021 -
COVID prevention
ETC and Save the Earth produced these illustrated COVID prevention posters; this one is on the outer gate of a school in Ramdhuni, May 2021 -
Seed money
Once a women's group collects 10,000 rupees for its self-managed microcredit fund, that amount is being matched at 50% by the local municipal government and 100% by ETC. The money will help members start and grow their own small businesses. (May 2021) -
Sahera Women's Group leader at seedling nursery
This Korsani pepper seedling nursery is located on the property of a women's group member whose family has a bit of extra land that they can allow to be used in this way, for the ultimate benefit of the entire women's group, March 2021 -
Women's group members receive kitchen garden seedlings
The members of Devestan Women's Group are pictured here with some of the seedlings they'll be planting in their kitchen gardens, March 2021 -
Materials distribution at school
Members of ETC's staff and board distributing school supplies to students at Bhagwati Basic School, March 2021 -
Everyone loves new school supplies!
Pictured here are some of the students at a Ramdhuni basic school with the notebooks that ETC has provided, March 2021 -
Weekly market
ETC women's group members will be able to sell their own produce in this market! (Photo from March 2021) -
Livestock training is beginning
ETC's Sustainable Agricultural Development Officer, Bisam Prasad Mahato, distributes chicks to aspiring women poultry farmers in Ramdhuni, March 2021 -
Ducklings distributed to women farmers
Members of Hariali Women's Group received 10 ducklings and antibiotics to protect them while they're so little and vulnerable, March 2021 -
Horticultural training has begun
ETC women's group members receive hands-on training to grow more and better food, year-round, in their kitchen gardens, Feb. 2021 -
Leader Farmer of Karma Women's Group
As the LF for her women's group, she will play a key role in helping her peers gain agricultural skills and resources. Photo from Feb. 2021 -
Ram Janaki School
A classroom in Ram Janaki School, Ramdhuni Municipality, Feb. 2021 -
Women's group formation
The woman chosen by her peers to be the secretary of this new women's group is learning to take meeting notes, Jan. 2021