We build our own classrooms

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We generate our own milk









We grow our own food to eat
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Sustaining ECF

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Sustainability is a central value of the ECF ethos. It serves as an operational principle that drives our strategy, which has three key elements: community and social participation, environmental conservation, and internal resource generation.

ECF insists that all children in the program maintain their family, relational and community ties, and that the community participates in the ECF program. The community has helped to build the school, and plays a leading role in selecting the most disadvantaged and eligible children to enroll in the program. The community also provides in-kind labour resources for seasonal agricultural work such as sowing and harvesting. More widely, ECF mobilizes businesses, and various organisations for in-kind services and grants for special projects. ECF runs and is bulding up a child sponsorship program to build a wider business and individual alliance around the ECF initiative. In the long term, it aspires to build an endowment to secure stable financial support for the program. But without donations we will not achieve our sustainability.

Environmental conservation is a key feature of ECF’s sustainability practice. ECF has undertaken re-forrestation activities, and has installed a biogas facility, which generates sustainable and environmentally friendly gas for cooking. ECF seeks to generate solar and wind energy on site, as well as use ground water resources. ECF believes that photovoltaic cells can be installed on top of the school buildings to generate safe and sustainable electricity for the school and other development actitivies. It also knows that windmill technology can be employed to enable low cost irrigation and energy for food processing. This is important for cost management, as well as conservation.

Internal resource generation is another key element of our sustainability efforts. ECF undertakes agriculture, horticulture and dairy production on the Aleltu site to enable on-site supplementary feeding, and also to demonstrate and promote improved agricultural innovation and practices in the surrounding communities. By 2008, ECF aims to produce all food for the children on the premises including milk, vegetables, staples, fruits and honey.