Environment Day celebrated (June 5, 2008)

ECCA Nepal in coordination with Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City (LSMC) office and Bottlers Nepal jointly organized a week program to mark World environmental day 2008 with objective of aware the general public on environmental issues. Following programs were organized during the week.

1 st June: Clean up materials distribution (to women groups, child clubs and public schools of Lalitpur Sub- Metropolitan City )

2 nd June: Green Board Competition

3 rd June: Clean Green Win Competition

4 th June: Clean Up, Awareness and Suiro Promotion Program (Surio was distributed to 600 shops with an objective to develop the waste separation habit on general public)

5 th June: Exhibition and Prize Distribution at Mangal Bazar Darbar square premises: The program was inaugurated by acting CEO of LSMC followed by the presentation of waste water treatment initiation and technology adopted by Bottlers Nepal for conservation of environment. Different Environmental model Exhibition, photos of Bagmati river, Green board and Environmental documentary were exhibited.

Student Performing	Presentation by Bottlers Nepal	Model demostration by Nature Club
Green board display	Certificate distribution	Students in street for clean up awareness

World Environment Day 2007

Solar Tuki sharing workshop for Members of Parliament

For the first time, the Nepalese Government has recognized the contribution and usage of SOLAR TUKI by declaring “ Karnali Illuminated Program ” in the fiscal year 2063/64 (2006/07) national budget. Under this program, 60,000 solar tuki (having minimum facility of using a radio and two lamps) will be promoted in 9 remote districts (Dolpa, Jumla, Kalikot, Mugu, Humla, Jajarkot, Bajhang, Aacham, Bajura). Government has allocated NRs.142.5 million (US$ 1.9 million) for this program – sharing will be 95% government and 5% user.

To share the knowledge and experience gained by ECCA and CRE during the solar tuki promotion in the past two years, sharing workshop was organized in Kathmandu for the Members of House of Representatives on August 9, 2006. The program was attended by 23 persons including 7 MPs from the targeted 9 districts.

Motivators Training “II” for Solar Tuki Campaign

After the success of 1st Motivator Training in September 2005, ECCA organized 2 days, overnight “ Motivators Training II for Solar Tuki Campaign” on August 2-3, 2006 for the promotion of this campaign. This training program was mainly targeted for the youths and social development workers working in field level of different organizations. 16 participants from 8 organizations located outside kathmandu valley attended the training. Training materials, food and accommodation from Dinner of August 1 to Breakfast of August 4, 2006 was provided. Transportation cost was managed by the participants or the concerned organization itself.

Photographs of ECCA's 20th year celebration

Inaguration by Chairman	Lighting Diyo
Counsellor of the year 2007 to Rajiv Ranjit	Anniversary Book Launch

World Environment Day 2006

World Environment Day 2006 was marked by ECCA by organizing series of event like exhibition, art competition, and poster workshop. Two-days exhibition (June 4 – 5) on the theme “Solid Waste Management” was co-organized with Lalitpur Sub Metropolitan City (LSMC) at Jawalakhel. About 15 stalls were exhibited from different organizations (NEPSE MAC, ESDO, EPS, ENPHO, Nepatop, Pulchok Engineering Campus, Lumanti, WEPCO, Sustainable Technology Development, ECCA, LSMC and its women groups).

ECCA exhibited previous and recent photographs on river pollution (especially of Bagmati river) with the objective of creating sense of awareness on Bagmati river condition.

In the same venue, drama “Fhora ki mohar” was shown by “Macha Pucha”(Children group) of LSMC.

Art Competition was held on the theme “Role of Waste Management in Clean and Healthy Environment”. Forty school students participated in the competition.

Apart from that, ECCA also supported Poster workshop organized by Creative Forum Nepal at Pashupati.

Art Competition	Exhibition inauguration-Hon Minister for Local Development-Rajendra Pd Pandey
Drama and Audience	Watching ECCA display

World Water Day 2006

ECCA organized walkathon along Bagmati river from Sankhamul to Thapathali bridge and photo exhibition (on previous and present state of Bagmati river, various techniques on river conservation) in the Thapathali Bagmati bridge (in the Kopundol side).

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Honoring Wildlife Conservationist

Wise-use House and Nepal Nature.Com organized a program in honor of Dr. Tirtha Man Maskey on 9 January 2006 to recognize his contribution in wildlife conservation in Nepal . Dr. Maskey is one of the pioneers in wildlife conservation in Nepal and is recently retired from his service as the Director General of Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. He has done outstanding contribution in conservation of Gharial in Nepal .

Distinguished personalities in conservation, diplomat, personnel of departments of HMG and journalist were present at the ceremony. The program was organized in coordination of WWG chairman Mangal Man Shakya. Dr. Chandra P. Gurung-country representative of WWF Nepal Program, Karna Shakya-a well known conservationist and famous hotelier Mr. Karna Shakya and Anil Chitrakar-Mentor of Wise-use House delivered the words of appreciation to Dr. Maskey. Dr. Makey was offered a souvenir with appreciation letter during the ceremony. The formal program was adjourned with vote of thanks from Rejendra Suwal , MD of Nepal Nature.Com. Celebration was started with refreshments.

Australian volunteers in ECCA

Drinking Water Project was constructed at Shree Gyanodaya Lower Secondary School Chaughare, Southern Lalitpur with the support and participation of Oz-Quest Young Australian Adventurers' Nepal Programme, Australia. During the period (27 th Dec 2005 - January 4, 2006) Australian volunteers laid 2 km long underground water pipe so as to bring drinking water from the natural spring. The school management and the local people were very impressed from the young Australian volunteers' hard work. It is believed that the water supply will help to keep the school environment better than before.

Solar Tuki Usage

"No more waiting in kerosene queues for me, and no more money spent on batteries for the radio!" says Nara Bahadur Tamang. Talking about the benefits of Solar Tuki he has installed in his home he says proudly, "No more fear of fire and smoke. No more groping in the dark for matches. All it takes is a flick of a switch to put it on and off!"

'School to School' Campaign

It is a simple concept of turning someone's wastage into a resource for another. It's a unique solution to a problem faced by thousands of remote village schools, that of lack of infrastructure and basic facilities. These are critical for a child to have a basic experience of schooling. ‘School to School' is a practical, cost effective and easily replicable concept, arrived at on the basis of prevalent practices in urban schools.

A small village school's needs are very basic. Normally students don't even have a pencil or copy to write on, a bag, school uniform, mats for sitting are a distant dream. The idea is to motivate urban schools and students to donate the material they discard at the end of the annual term as every year most school children buy a new set of uniform, copies, stationary, water bottles, shoes, lunch box etc. when they move to the next class. Discarded toys and story books can be additional items.

ECCA will help establish a relationship between an urban and a rural school.
The focus is on sensitizing the urban school children and their parents to the needs of their counterparts in remote villages. It is an on-going exercise where year after year an urban school can be part of this nationwide programme just by creating awareness about the concept, by motivating the students and without investing or spending any money.

A much bigger and an important positive aspect of the campaign is the support in environment conservation as well. As the entire concept is based on reusing, it enables use of every single item for many times instead of using it once and throwing away in the garbage.

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VASTRADAAN
" Buy new clothes for Dashain/Tihar - Give wearable clothes to needy people"

Fulfilling a basic need - Out of the three basic needs of mankind (Food, Cloth and Shelter), we believe that just by re-using our old clothes the problem of clothing can be solved to a very large extent without any major investments and policy decisions. It doesn't involve the expenses and efforts on holistic development of the society as in case of solving the problem of Food and no major policy decisions and huge investments are required, as in case of Shelter.

Development v/s Charity - A cloth does not solve all the problems of a needy person, but it give him the leverage to reallocate his meager resources. When we raise an issue of development v/s charity and say by distributing clothes we are promoting charity, we tend to forget that this issue might be relevant for western countries but not in a country like Nepal. The question of survival is the biggest question for half the population who either don't have resources or whatever they have is not enough even for a meal in a day. Although a basic need, the cloth doesn't even come in their imagination while struggling for survival.

The macro thought - Never stop donating by doubting that whether it'll reach to a right person or not. On a macro level divide the society in two parts - one is Donor and the other is Receiver. Always remember that me and you as donors never buy it back, the buyer is someone living in a small locality, a rickshaw puller, a laborer or a slum dweller. The fact remains that it reaches to someone needy, anywhere in some part of the country.

When VASTRA-DAAN takes the shape of a mass movement – A few years down the line when VASTRA-DAAN spreads through out the country, by simple rule of demand and supply, the supply would be much more, which means -

	Much more clothes to more people, across the country, without any charge.
	The cloth penetrates deep inside the country, even to the remotest parts, fulfilling one of the basic needs of the mankind.
	The beneficiaries can reallocate his meager resources for other basic needs like food, health and shelter.
	The moment any disaster happens, we'll be ready with a stock of relief material and a network of donors, volunteers and agencies in place to face it.
	Thousands of people will be saved from a vicious cycle of debts, they get into around festival time for buying    clothes. A lot of beneficiaries in Nepal exemplifies this, who on Dashain, their main festival, didn't have to buy clothes on loan because they got it from "ECCA-Wise-use".

And all this need just Rs 1 per cloth,
right from collection to sorting, packing,
transportation, and distribution
in any remote part of the country

What can be donated

CLOTHES- Old / New but in wearable condition - Woolens/ Sarees / Salwar Suits/ Kurta-Pyjamas /Trousers /Shirts / children clothes / Bedsheets / Blankets

FOOTWEAR - Of all size, in pairs (if possible, left and right tied together)

UTENSILS - Old/ New- Pans, Plates, Bowls, Glasses, Tawa, Spoons & Ladles, Cooker, Cups, Tongs etc

STATIONERY - Old/new school bags, lunch boxes, water bottles, Pen, pencil, sharpener, eraser, scale etc.

DRY RATION - Pulses, Spices, sugar, tealeaf, rice etc.

MEDICINES - (No half consumed or expired)

CASH DONATIONS - For Communication, Collection camps, storage, sorting, packing, travel, Transportation and local distribution expenses. Cash donations can be made at the collection centers or you can send an account payee Cheque / Draft in the name of Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness, Jwagal, Lalitpur.

TIME DONATIONS - WE ALSO NEED VOLUNTEERS, who can spare a few hours to be with us for door to door campaigns, and who can help us in sorting, packing etc.

SPACE DONATIONS - We need many more collection centers to ensure easy accessibility for everyone who wishes to make a donation. So if you can spare a corner in your house/office please inform us, also check with your friends/relatives if they would allow the use of a small place in their premises as collection center.