ECWZ at a glance

Nara with stuffs
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Registered district: - Rasuwa.
Field of work: - Child education, social awareness, disaster relief, women empowerment, etc .

Overview:-
ECWZ was registered on September last year in the Government of Nepal as a registered charity to work in child education, disaster relief, awareness education and other issues related to children. It has been one year from the date of registration, while ECWZ has been doing its work in various fields. By the joint effort of dedicated and committed Nepalese and foreign youths, ECWZ has become one of the favourite charities in rural district of Nepal.

Achievements:-
We are proud to say that we are nominated for the Award given to the organisation working in children sector. Despite its small resources, political and geographical unsuitability, short time, we have been one of the favourite charity of rural district. We are one of those too few organisations to go and work in the remote and challenging area where we working, which were said to be affected by Maoist.
Because of its sponsorship project and disaster relief programme, people of remote villages have hope on us. We are being more friendly and supportive to them. Even Maoist has appreciated us and our project and we have received their commitment to support us. It was challenging to go to remote village and was further challenging to work in remote areas which were affected my Maoist. ECWZ has started a mega project with small resources and is getting successful. We aim to share their issues and problems by providing them support from every possible angles. We have started some projects to increase literacy, awareness and to improve their economical status. Currently we are sponsoring 75 children from remote, disadvantaged and poor families. We distributed more than 2500 kg of rice to 84 families and more than 1000 pieces of clothes to more than 300 people. Recently we distributed stationery materials to more than 800 students from different 5 schools. As awareness tool, ECWZ is making a documentary.
Current projects:-
1) Social awareness through education programme: - This is a broad sponsorship project run by ECWZ from this educational session. Initially we are sponsoring 75 children from rural villages where literacy rate is below 10% and more than 90% people are under poverty line. People from minor cast and disadvantaged group live in these villages. We have two types of assistance under this project. First one is full scholarship which includes all the educational materials which a student may need in a year (i.e. pen, ink, geometry kit, text book, exercise book, bag, dress, etc.). Partial scholarship means only little assistance for the kids of village primary school and to those who have no parents/single parents. We have 75 students above 6 grade having full scholarship and more than 800 below 6 having partial scholarship.
2) Disaster relief: - ECWZ distributed around 2520 kg of rice to 84 families of Yarsha-9, Ghormu, Rasuwa who were affected by the recent landslide and couldn’t get any sort of reasonable assistance from anywhere. 84 families got 30 kg of rice each and we are sponsoring their children above 6 and have got partial scholarships that are below 6 grade. We provided some clothes for the victims and their relatives. At least ECWZ has tried to share the complications and challenges of rural lives. For more details please visit:- www.devkota-kishan.blogspot.com
3) Documentary: - ECWZ with the help of Playback Entertainment of Australia is making a documentary called VALLEY OF THE LOST CHILDREN on street and rural life of poor Nepalese children. We are aiming to use documentary as an awareness tool which will make the rural children aware of city and street life. Children who are not satisfied with their family and are thinking of running away are mainly targeted and will be benefited from this documentary. Within upcoming few months, it will be released. For more details visit :- www.playbackentertainment.com.au
Future projects:-
1) Awareness programme: - By the diverse means of informal resources like documentary, dramas, audio visual lesions, seminars, etc. ECWZ is planning to start awareness programme in near future. Initially we will be focussing on documentary.
2) Women empowerment and income generating skill training programme: - Women has important role in a family. They should be empowered if we need to make a family strong. Income generating trainings and women empowerment programme will exercise to improve their economical status and to increase their awareness about health, education, their right, etc.
Thanks to well wishers and supporters. Whatever ECWZ doing is possible only because of your invaluable support and positive response. We will be looking forward for same even more support and your involvement in our mission.
Kishan Devkota
Founder/Coordinator, ECWZ family

One year with ECWZ

ECWZ kids
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I started ECWZ right one year ago. 365 days passed, that after the determent effort I was able to register ECWZ at the district administration office. I had no money, no fund but I could register ECWZ finally. It took me about 3 month to register because the documentation process took really long time and was quite boring.
Started with few people, now ECWZ has so many well wishers and supporters. Although it’s active members are still few but it has been doing its work so well. ECWZ needs more funds and more members so it could run the projects effectively and efficiently. My philosophy is social work should not be the profession and as the source of income. Let’s keep this as the hobby. One could get job is any social organization but one should not make the social work like business.
I left so many classes at uni, I gave up so many other activities and hobbies of life just to run ECWZ. Now ECWZ has been the most important thing in my life, important than my career and study. It has been so hard for me to defend my position and to defend scholarship which I am getting now but it’s ok. I still don’t have job, still ask family to pay for my expenses but I am not sad. I have done so many things and my campaign has started. Hundreds of people in the remote area will start to go school and that will bring revolutionary change in their life. 75 kids from poorest and most remote villages are studying at the village high school now. We are paying for their education. They expect to get a small job after their study. They don’t even dream that they deserve the highest post in any other organization and they can be the leader. Their family is practicing the traditional life and those people don’t wish to get up but we must wake them up and will have to show the dream. We will have to teach them to see the dream and will have to help them to achieve that. We will have to provide them pen and books not carrying things. The trend of being laborers should be stopped now and they should be at the place where they deserve to be. I have started this campaign through ECWZ. I have got invaluable support from many people, please keep it on! We are changing the small world. Come! Let’s join the team and walk together through this complicated, complex but probably the virtuous and best destination of the human world.

Some pictures of disaster relief programme

Above pictures are taken from the disaster relief programme run by ECWZ before few month. We have been appreciated by Maoist, local people and from the government also. Government also want to coordinate us for what we doing. These things are what I wanted to do always and will love doing in future too. The man carrying bag od rice and a red bag is the head of the Maoist for village district.