Of all the field trips I was a part of the trip to ECHO was definitely the most interesting and most rewarding to me. Their general goals and mission to help the less fortunate through education, training, and assistance has proven to be an amazing foundation to grow this non-profit business. I found it to be an amazing feat that this foundation that started in 1981 is now helping and has volunteers in over 180 countries. I believe that this has been such a growing business because of how they run their assistance programs. Giving a person food, money, or seed is a great thing for a person to do but even in the video they show in the beginning they follow the old quote “give a man a fish, feed him for the day, teach a man to fish and feed him for a life time”. What they mean by this is that they don’t just go into these countries and give them supplies they give them education, education on how to grow better crops, education on what crops to grow, and education on utilizing resources. I am also glad that I waited towards the end to go on this field trip because the reading I did out of state of the world really touched basis with this field trip. I had an idea what the drip irrigation system was but it actually has one of these irrigations set up within the farm. Another type of irrigation they had that touched basis with the reading was the treadle pumps. The demonstration that the tour guide gave us showed how simple and cheap these irrigation systems can be. Around the world there are millions of people struggling with undernourishment, one country and one village at a time these volunteers from ECHO are educating and changing the quality of life for these individuals.
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