Major Outcomes of Our Work
Since December 2002 ECDO has been designing and delivering various development projects with the aim of improving the standards of living of the indigenous people of Sylhet Division.
At the time of writing (September 2007), some of ECDO’s major acheivements are as follows:
- More than 352 indigenous children (Khasi, Patro, Tea labour) have received free educational materials.
- 105 indigenous children are studying in 5 Education Support Centers (ESC).
- 25 students participate in Global Art Exchange an opportunity for Manipuri children to learn artistic skills and exchange Manipuri culture through the medium of art with two English primary schools.
- More than 132 indigenous women have participated in different HIV/AIDS counseling workshops.
- 500 indigenous women, men and children have received professional medical advice and free medicine from annual medical camps.
- More than 534 indigenous people from the Patro, Khasi, Tea Labour and Mahali communities have benefited from five Rain Water Harvesting Plants and now have access to safe drinking water.
- Near about 745 primary school students have taken part in hygiene awareness workshops.
- Twenty women from 17 villages have participated in Traditional Birth Attendance training, which they will disseminate to nearly 3,000 women.
- The problems faced by indigenous communities in the North East are becoming more familiar to different stakeholders.
- ECDO have published indigenous Multi-lingual Posters bearing messages on HIV/AIDS and Reproductive health.
- We have provided Traditional Birth Attendance (TBA) training at the beginning of this year under DIGNITY project. Twenty indigenous women from Khasi, Patro and Tea labor community have received this training.
- Twenty Traditional Birth Attendance (TBA) kit box were distributed among the TBA indigenous women in July 2007 after a refreshers course. Now they are providing better health service to the community than before.
- ECDO have organized a Journalist Sensitization workshop on indigenous issues in Sylhet, Bangladesh. More than twenty journalists from different media were present in that workshop.