About

Mission

ECHO-BD believes that all human beings are created equal and deserve the same dignity and respect. We strongly believe that a small help in the right way can change the course of human beings. With that belief, ECHO-BD is on a mission to extend a helping hand to the neediest section of our population to help them climb out of poverty, and ultimately lead a dignified life.

Vision

The vision of ECHO-BD is to nurture human beings in a way that will help the socially disadvantaged people of Bangladesh live a life free of hunger and eventually become a productive member of society.

Goal

The goal of the ECHO-BD is to enable people to live a dignified life. We strive to alleviate poverty, provide education, and create employment for the poor and marginalized families and thereby create a way for these people to lead a respectable and dignified life.

Core Values

Respect: We treat all people with dignity and respect.
Stewardship: We honor our heritage as well as are aware of our role on the planet earth. We are the stewards of the blue planet and will do our part to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Integrity: We strive to meet the highest ethical standards
Learning: We challenge each other to strive for excellence and to continually learn.
Innovation: We embrace continuous improvement, bold creativity, and change.

Partnership

ECHO-USA: We are fortunate to work with ECHO-USA, our partner in many of our local endeavors.

Orphanage and School

Our core project is the Shefa Institute. Our goal is to raise 60 orphan girls from different parts of the country and provide them with food, shelter, and contemporary education with an aim to see them integrate into society. The Institute is housed in a large compound in Ashulia, a suburb of Dhaka. The School is located within the compound but is open to the neighboring kids. The girls are not only showing excellence in education but also are trained in various computer courses as well as various extracurricular activities and sports.

G-WASH

Clean water and hygienic toilets for girl’s schools in remote parts of Bangladesh. The projects aim at improving sanitation in toilets of mainly girls schools in an aim to improve their overall health and enrollment in schools. To date, we have done close to 30 such projects which include clean potable water supply and a unit of toilets and sinks.

Snippets into other projects

• Distribution of warm clothes to the poor people in the winter season in the different districts of the country like Patuakhali, Shatkhira and different areas of Dinajpur District.
• We also have distributed relief to the flood-affected people of flood-affected areas of the country like Gaibandha, Biral of Dinajpur, chirir Bandar, etc. and also distributed seeds for plantations for future need. Also, a few numbers of bulls are distributed to the affected people to meet up their Food.
• We have distributed 40 cows to the poor people at the root level to minority groups so that they may become solvent to some extent through our organization.
• We have paid in every month some money to the disabled people for their treatment.
• For the Rohinga Muslims, our organization worked in different fields like immediate food arrangements, an arrangement for drink water, sanitary latrines, clothes, mosques and building houses. And all the above works we have done through the donation from our own sources ECHO USA, and also from and the NRB donors. We are thankful to them for their help to do the noble job.
• COVID-19 Relief:
  In the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation of the country, with many areas under lockdown and it impacted the earnings of the poor people as well as the middle class. People were in a grave situation. ECHO Bangladesh organized distribution of food and other everyday necessary items to them. This program is organized in Dhaka and other remote districts of the country.
• We also distributed 1100 packet among the most venerable group in Dhaka.
• In Ramadan we also distributed 40 packets for families in Barishal and Patuakhali, 120 families in Dinajpur, 160 families in Satkhira.
  In Tangail ECHO distributed the necessary food packet among 65 families of middle-class people. ECHO also distributed the necessary food packet among Lohadanga, Biral in Dinajpur District. (In Barishal & Patuakhali among 40 families)
• ECHO -BD also distributed food packet among Nilphamari, Rangpur, Sundargong, Gaibandha, Birgong, Barsha, (2435 packet)
• With the help of ECHO-USA ECHO-BD distributed 1500 packets of foods among the middle class like school teachers and other job holders in Dhaka, Satkhira, Saver, Dinajpur.