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Fundraising Dinner Recap

By Samihah Azim

A hearty thank you to all of our donors and supporters that showed up to our 8th Annual Fundraising Dinner on Sunday. We raised just under $50,000 this year with around 500 guests in attendance! In addition to speeches from our project managers, and our guest of honor – Dr. Rajabally, this year, we made a couple of changes to our program. A group of kids from the community came together for their Hamd and Nat presentation. We also hosted a video contest with the first place prize going to Anik, Mahir, Arhub, Maroof, and Himel for their video Vogno Dosha (translates to “broken condition”). Thank you to all of our video contest participants with special recognition going to Nabeel and Sarah for their video Village School in Bangladesh, Naser for his video Bangladesh Education, and Lamisha and Tanisha for their video Bangladesh Born. The money raised will go towards the various projects supported by ECHO. ECHO believes in financial self-reliance, thus, many of our projects are geared towards education or equipping the poor with the necessary skills to earn an income. We also have a number of projects under health care and natural disaster aid. For more information, or to make a donation, please visit our website. Additionally, you may fan us on Facebook. If you’d like to donate through Facebook, you can do so through the Causes tab on our Facebook Fan Page. We also love hearing from our donors and supporters! So write on our wall or comment below let us know what projects you’d like to see ECHO undertake, your views and opinions on assisting the poor in developing nations, or even to just say hello!