ECHO Iftar Party 2003 Educational, Charitable and Humanitarian Organization Silicon Valley, CANovemb

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ECHO Iftar Party 2003Educational,
Charitable and Humanitarian OrganizationSilico
n Valley, CA November 1, 2003
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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 help starving and sick people with food,
  clothing and healthcare

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ECHO Mission(continued)

• To help economically disadvantaged people in
  achieving self-reliance and self-supporting
  capability with onetime income generating
  assistance
• To assist the victims of natural calamities and
  those who were uprooted from their homes with
  relief

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Highlights of Activities

• In 2002, the ECHO team, in collaboration with
  other organizations, accomplished following
  projects
• Provided scholarships for 100 needy and
  meritorious students
• Distributed fitrah among 475 poor and needy
  people of Bangladesh
• Arranged 44 qurbanis for the benefit of the poor

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ECHO FITRAH PROJECT
FITRAH DISTRIBUTION IN JHENAIDAH
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ECHO FITRAH PROJECT
FITRAH DISTRIBUTION IN JHENAIDAH
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ECHO FITRAH PROJECT
FITRAH DISTRIBUTION IN JHENAIDAH
CAN WE HELP THEM TO COME OUT OF THIS POVERTY
CYCLE?
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ECHO QURBANI PROJECT

• With our donors' help we sent 44 qurbanis (35
  shares of cow and 9 goats) to Bangladesh.
• These qurbanis were done in Sadar and Bera
  Upozilas of Pabna district and in Halishahar
  Upozila of Chittagong district.
• 409 families benefitted from this program, each
  receiving 1.5 kg to 2.0 kg of meat.
• We also arranged slaughtering a cow in an
  eatimkhana (orphanage) at Joydevpur as a sadaqa
  for the benefit of orphans there.

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ECHO QURBANI PROJECT
QURBANI MEAT DISTRIBUTION IN PABNA
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ECHO QURBANI PROJECT
QURBANI MEAT DISTRIBUTION IN HATURIA
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ECHO QURBANI PROJECT
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ECHO PROJECTS

• Current Projects
• Provide financial support to 100 poor and
  meritorious students
• Helping people specially women in earning
  self-reliance
• Sewing Machine
• Hand Loom
• Livestock

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FUTURE PROJECTS

• Educational Project
• Provide financial support to additional 500 poor
  and meritorious students in 2004
• More than 80 Bangladeshis live in poverty
• Our goal is to bring them out of poverty
• We would like to change the living standard of a
  generation
• Your donation can make a huge difference !

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FUTURE PROJECTS (continued)

• Sewing Machine Project
• Provide sewing machines to women in selective
  villages in different parts of Bangladesh
• Benefit is two-fold
• Helping the distressed women-folks in Bangladesh
• Facilitate them to achieve self-reliance
• Your donation can bring joy and happiness!

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FUTURE PROJECTS (continued)

• Handloom Project
• Provide weaving machines to poor and expert
  weavers in selective villages in Bangladesh
• Benefit is two-fold
• Reviving almost vanishing handloom industry in
  Bangladesh
• Help them to achieve self-reliance
• Your donation will go a long way!

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FUTURE PROJECTS (continued)

• Other Projects
• Name your own project and we will implement on
  your behalf
• Providing medicines and apparatus to hospitals
• Sponsor a child all the way up to college
• Sponsor all the students in a school and monitor
  their performance up to higher education
• Mosque and Madrasha

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PROJECT AREAS IN BANGLADESH
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ECHO Team / Contacts

• Muhammad al-Faruque - President and
  Chairmanemail mafaruque_at_hotmail.com, Phone
  [phone]
• Molla Fazlul Haq - Vice President email
  mfhuq_at_aol.com, Phone [phone]
• Muhammad Quamruzzaman - Secretary email
  mzaman_at_cisco.com, Phone [phone]
• Sohel Imtiaz - Treasureremail
  sohel.imtiaz_at_micrel.com, Phone [phone]
• Jahangir Dewan - Directoremail
  jjjdewan_at_attbi.com, Phone [phone]
• Mohammad Ibrahim - Directoremail
  mohammad.ibrahim_at_nsc.com, Phone [phone]
• Mahbub Khan - Directoremail mahbubkhan_at_ieee.org,
  Phone [phone]

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Organization
Educational Charitable Humanitarian www.ec
ho-us.org
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Thank you!