ESPT’s Other Initiatives
Environment Protection
To stay connected with nature and respecting the environment, we have established a tradition of planting a sapling prior to the commencement of any program. Additionally, each year on World Environment Day, we plant saplings in public areas and strive to increase awareness about the importance of preserving and safeguarding the environment.
Disaster Relief & Response
Flood Relief
Dhubri is a flood prone district. To minimize the effect of seasonal flood, we undertake different flood response activities. Apart from distribution of essential items like food, medicines, we have installed 5 hand pumps with high raised platforms in intervention villages. Multiple organisations like IDeA- the ant, Action Aid- India, and Goonj have been supporting us in the disaster relief and response.
Covid-19 Relief
During the CoVid-19 pandemic with the support of IDeA- the ant, we reached out to more than 700 families from 8 riverine and tea garden villages with essential relief items. With the support of local youths, ASHAs and AWWs we distributed total 285 activity kits among the children in our intervention villages. Education Volunteers conducted sessions with the children on how to use the activity kit and regularly conducted follow up session of the activities. To educate the community about positive parenting, we distributed parenting booklet and other awareness materials about the pandemic. Additionally, to keep us informed about the situation we formed CORONA committees in our intervention villages, and regularly organized follow up meetings with them.
Cloth For Work
Under Goonj’s CFW initiative, we motivate individuals from our intervention villages to work in village developmental activities, such as road repairing and construction, culvert repairing, construction of river embankments etc. in their villages. The villagers eagerly accept the work, and in recognition of their efforts, Goonj provides them with clothing and other useful materials.
