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ECHO

Thematic Focus Areas

Hunger
Education
Women & Girls
Fights world hunger by helping people help themselves. Provides training, information, and seeds to development workers, missionaries and small-scale farmers working in 190+ countries.
ECHO

Website

EIN

23-7275283

Give Global Blog

Three women posing in front in a field
As spring flourishes outside my office window and Earth Day approaches this month, Louis Armstrong’s song “What a Wonderful World” goes through my head. Global Impact celebrates the environment as April’s cause of the month as well. In honor of this month, I’ll share Armstrong’s lyrics that remind me of the ways that Global Impact’s charity partners help create a wonderful world. Planting change in Ethiopia Unlike in the song, there aren’t “trees of green, red roses too,” sprouting up in southern Ethiopia – rather, vegetables and quinoa – but they’re creating a wonderful world, nonetheless. Our charity partner Seed...

Charity Photos

  • Title: West Africa Trainee Result
  • Charity: ECHO, Inc.
  • Country: Burkina Faso
  • Photo Credit: ECHO Staff

  • Title: 1-Day Compost Class
  • Charity: ECHO, Inc.
  • Country: Burkina Faso
  • Photo Credit: ECHO Staff

  • Title: Fertilizer Training in Noakuy
  • Charity: ECHO, Inc.
  • Country: Burkina Faso
  • Photo Credit: ECHO Staff

Charity Videos

Charity Impact

The enriching and life-sustaining impact ECHO has on people’s lives reverberates throughout the world. The knowledge, training, and resources provided at just one workshop through ECHO Asia and its partners in one Southeast Asian nation are helping to improve the success of farmers across the region. In one particular instance, ECHO tools and training were implemented to sustain the lives of 300 orphans in a neighboring country. Youthful Myanmar farmer Saw Shiesho speaks with the poise and wisdom of someone twice his age. Interviewed at just 19 years old, his great enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge for his mission clearly shine through. He became a farmer at age 17 and works the land at Full Moon, an orphanage to the north of Yangon, one of the region’s larger cities. He starts his day at 6 a.m. and tends to the plants by hand, watering, fertilizing, and harvesting. In the evening...