Sohel Imtiaz Director and Project Coordinator Silicon Valley, CAOctober 8, 2005

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Sohel ImtiazDirector and Project
Coordinator Silicon Valley, CA October 8, 2005
ECHO Iftar Party and Fundraising Dinner 2005
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OVERVIEW

• Introduction
• ECHO mission
• Highlights of activities
• ECHO project update

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FACTS ABOUT BANGLADESH

• Population 135M
• Population under poverty line 77.8 (2/day)
• Population under poverty line 38 (1/day)
  Calorie intake lt 2112/day
• World Bank statistics - 83 of Bangladeshs
  people live in rural areas
• Bangladesh has one of the lowest literacy rates
  in the world (35)
• men 44 and women 24
• rural areas 20 and urban areas 53

Target Beneficiary
Critical Mass
50Million
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FACTS ABOUT BANGLADESH
People in Rural Bangladesh
CAN WE GIVE THEM AN EXTRA HAND? ANY SUPPORT?
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ECHO Mission

• To help economically and socially disadvantaged
  children in getting education and thereby
  enabling them to establish in the society
• To assist poor and needy women in getting
  training so that they can be financially
  contributing members of the family
• To provide food, clothes and healthcare services
  to starving and less advantaged people

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ECHO Mission

• To assist economically less-advantaged people
  with income generating capital and help them
  thereby in becoming self-supporting and
  self-reliant
• To provide emergency relief and other support to
  the victims of natural disasters

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Highlights of Activities

• In 2005, the ECHO team, in collaboration with
  other organizations in Bangladesh, accomplished
  the following projects
• Provided scholarships for 100 needy and
  meritorious students
• Distributed fitrah among 1000 poor and needy
  people of Bangladesh
• Arranged 60 qurbanis for the benefit of the poor

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Highlights of Activities

• ECHO sponsored a healthcare project in Dhaka
  specifically designed to help pregnant mothers
  and children
• Funded a skill development training program
  (computer, trade, automobile, refrigerator
  /air-conditioner repair, sewing and embroidery)
• Funded an elementary education project to provide
  better formal education to the socially excluded
  (weaver society) children
• Sponsored computer training projects to foster
  computer literacy by making personal computers
  and basic computer training accessible to needy
  youngsters in Bangladesh.

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ECHO PROJECTS
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SCHOLARSHIP PROJECT

• Provided financial support to 100 poor and
  meritorious students in 2005
• Covered 19 institutions in five divisions
• 75 male and 25 female
• 30 university, 35 college, and 35 school students
• 83 has annual income lt Tk 30,000
• Estimated cost US 4500
• Fund provided US 4500 Status Completed
• Fund required for 2005-06 7500 (10,000 w/ food
  and accom.)
• Your donation can make a huge difference !

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SCHOLARSHIP PROJECT
WHAT CAN WE DO FOR THEIR BETTER FUTURE ?
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SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

• Location Mirpur, Dhaka Status Ongoing (MAB)
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• Provide training to poor and socially
  disadvantaged people on
• Computer, Electrical trade, Automobile, Driving,
  Refrigerator and air-conditioning (RAC) repair
• Provide training on sewing and embroidery
• Job Placement
• Provide training on assistance for poor students
  for self employment
• Approximate Coverage Area Dhaka City
• Estimated number of beneficiaries 250 students
• (50Electrical Trade, 50 RAC,
  50Tailoring/Embroidery, 50Driving, 50Computer)
• Funded US 4500 in 2004-05 Status Completed
• Future Allocated Fund US 6000 in 2005-06 - For
  new students

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SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Electrical Training
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SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Tailoring
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SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Computer Training
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SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Refrigerator and Air Condition Training
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SELF RELIANCE PROJECT

• Location Bangladesh Status New
  (Islamic Bank, Novartis, Muslim
• Aid other NGOs)
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• Strengthen sustainable socio-economic development
  of grassroots level people
• Goat rearing, Cow fattening, Seasonal Vegetable
  farming, Rickshaw Van driving with small scale
  agro-based business, Sewing machine, Poultry and
  Livestock etc.
• To increase the income and production of the
  target beneficiaries and communities through
  sustainable income generating activities
• To establish effective networking with various
  Govt. and Non-Govt. organizations to access
  common property resources and better services for
  those poor peoples.
• Ensure better prices of their agriculture
  products through introducing different marketing
  technique
• Approximate Coverage Area 10 Villages
• Estimated number of beneficiaries 500 Households
  
• Estimated Cost US 15000 (per year)
• Available Fund US 5000
• Funds Required US 10000

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HEALTHCARE FOR MOTHER AND CHILDREN

• Location Pallabi, Mirpur, Dhaka Status Ongoing
  (MAB)
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• Establishment of mother and child health care
  center to underprivileged people with preventive
  and curative care
• Health and nutrition education and pregnancy
  related care
• HIV/AIDS awareness education and preventive care
• Facility 1 doctor and 2 rooms, 800AM 200PM
  daily
• Estimated number of beneficiaries
• Patient 2500 (out-patient)
• Consultation and Medicine 5000 people
• Funding in 2004-05 US 5000 Status Completed
• Allocated Fund for 2005-06 US 5000

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HEALTHCARE FOR MOTHER AND CHILDREN
Satellite Health Center
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HEALTHCARE FOR MOTHER AND CHILDREN

• Location Bakergonj, Barisal Status New
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• Establish mother and child health care center to
  underprivileged
• Provide free health care services to the people
  in the village under poverty
• Health education for students, women and children
  
• Approximate Coverage Area 5 Villages
• Estimated number of beneficiaries 2000
• Estimated Cost Facility (one time) US 6K
• Yearly operation US 8K
• Allocated Fund US 0

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ELEMENTARY CHILDREN EDUCATION

• Location Bera Upozila, Pabna Status Ongoing
  (Tamanna)
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• Provide better formal education to the socially
  excluded (weaver society) children
• Introduce multiple ways of teaching and learning
  (MWTL) by providing training to teachers (7)
• Provide free educational (textbook, exercise
  books and pen) to some 100 poor students to ease
  their study in the academy
• Provide partial tuition fees to the same students
  (100 in number)
• so that they can continue their study more
  smoothly
• Approximate Coverage Area 3 Villages (Bera
  Upozila, Pabna)
• Estimated number of beneficiaries 100 Students
  and 7 Teachers
• Funding in 2004-05 US 2000 (per year) Status
  Completed
• Funding required in 2005-06 US 2000

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COMPUTER LABORATORIES

• Location 20 Locations, Bangladesh Status New
  (MAB/NGO)
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• To provide learning facilities to the computer
  science students
• Internet and web-based learning facilities for
  socially and economically disadvantaged students
• Promote the knowledge and usage of computers
  among the underprivileged youths in Bangladesh
• Foster computer literacy by making personal
  computers and basic computer training accessible
  to needy youngsters in Bangladesh.
• Approximate Coverage Area 20 schools in 4
  districts
• Estimated number of beneficiaries 4000 (200 per
  site)
• Estimated Cost US 10K (per year)
• Allocated Fund US 0

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DEEP TUBE-WELL

• Location Faridganj, Chandpur Status New (WISH)
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• To supply arsenic free water
• To save the rural arsenic affected beneficiaries
  from various diseases
• To make people conscious about adverse
  consequence
• To ensure healthy atmosphere
• Approximate Coverage Area 5 villages
• Estimated number of beneficiaries 5000
• Estimated Cost US 4.5K (per year)
• Allocated Fund US 4.5K

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EMERGENCY RELIEF

• Hurricane Katrina Relief
• Donated 3100 for the benefit of affected people
  in New Orleans

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EMERGENCY RELIEF
World Bank and Asian development Bank estimated
the flood damage to be 2.2B
Flood donation in Bangladesh US 5000 in 2004
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RAMADAN PROGRAM

• Location Bangladesh Status New (MAB)
• Goals and Objectives of the Project
• To extend and expand Quranic education and
  Islamic values among the grassroots Muslims.
• To ease fasting of the poor through providing
  Iftar and Suhur.
• To share joyful Eid occasion with the poor and
  unable sections of the society.
• To earn the satisfaction of the Almighty Allah.
• Cash money distribution for enjoying Eid.
• Approximate Coverage Area 5 districts
• Estimated number of beneficiaries 3480 families
• Estimated Cost US 11.4K (per year)
• Fund Available US 4K

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ECHO QURBANI FITRAH PROJECT

• Arranged 60 Qurbanies for the benefit of the poor
• Distributed Fitrah among 1000 poor people

CAN WE HELP THEM TO COME OUT OF THIS POVERTY
CYCLE?
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ADDITIONAL FUTURE PROJECTS

• Sewing machine and Handloom project
• Sponsor a child all the way up to college
• Sponsor all the students in a school and monitor
  their performance up to higher education

Your donation will go a long way!
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ECHO COMMUNITY BARBEQUE
Vesona Lake Park, Los Gatos
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ECHO COMMUNITY BARBEQUE
Vesona Lake Park, Los Gatos
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PROJECT AREAS IN BANGLADESH
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ECHO Team / Contacts

• Dr. Muhammad al-Faruque, President and Chairman,
  email faruque_at_uiuc.edu
• Dr. Zia Karim, Vice President, email
  zia_karim_at_yahoo.com
• Mr. Mahfuz Talukdar, Secretary, email
  mahfuzt_at_gmail.com
• Mr. Muhammad Quamruzzaman, Treasurer, email
  mzaman_at_cisco.com
• Mr. Jahangir Dewan, Director, email
  jjjdewan_at_yahoo.com
• Dr. Saif Mamoon, Director, email
  smamoon_at_yahoo.com
• Dr. Sohel Imtiaz, Director Project Coordinator,
  email sohel_kanak_at_yahoo.com
• Dr. Molla Fazlul Huq, Advisor, email
  mfhuq_at_aol.com
• Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, Advisor
• Dr. Mahbub Khan, Advisor, email
  mahbubkhan_at_ieee.org

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WEB ADDRESS OF ECHO
Educational Charitable Humanitarian www.ec
ho-us.org
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Thank you!
Dhaka City
Jamuna Bridge