ECI Nepal
Earth Child Institute Nepal is a national youth-led non-governmental organization that is part of Earth Child Institute (ECI), an international NGO committed to combating climate change, deforestation, and water scarcity by investing in hands-on environmental and educational projects with and for children, to reduce risk and increase resilience to the changing global environment. ECI Nepal is registered in the Kathmandu Administrative district and affiliated with the social welfare council of Nepal.
ECI Nepal is working with local communities and schools with the goal of turning global environmental challenges into local authentic opportunities. By combining recent innovations with indigenous knowledge and practices, ECI Nepal intends to create economic opportunities for local communities through the best utilization of natural resources, medicinal plants, flora & fauna, non-timber forest projects (NTFP), etc.
ECI Nepal believes in the exchange of innovation, knowledge, and practice on environmental issues through the engagement of youth toward global challenges via local action. It helps to revive the sense of brotherhood and sisterhood necessary for sustainable development, eco-peace, and green prosperity in the world.
Vision: By 2025, converting global environmental challenges into local, authentic, and educational opportunities for healthy ecosystems, prosperous livelihoods, and socio-economic development of the Karnali region of Nepal.
Mission: To educate, engage, and empower children, young people, and the influential adults in their lives (including policymakers, teachers, youth leaders, parents, medical professionals, etc) to get involved on many different levels of awareness, advocacy, and action to address the global challenges of water scarcity, energy security, climate change, and environmental degradation, turning these challenges into local opportunities.
Achievements:
- Established a library in three schools within the Dolpa district, benefiting 1,000 students and their teachers, also training some of them to maintain their community’s library.
- Involving local youth in door-to-door campaigns to inform people about reducing fossil-fuel energy use
- Encouraging children to plant 1,000 trees and take responsibility for their tree’s survival.
- Educational workshops with different target groups: a women literacy workshop and a “Climate Change and Children
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