I’m not going to lie; when I first heard we were going to ECHO I wasn’t all that thrilled. I’ve gone to ECHO since I was younger so I thought “here we go again”.Waking up early and having to be there at 9 am didn’t help but as we started our tour I was not bored for a second. Everything was so interesting, when I started it I thought to myself how different it seemed when I was younger, where I am now 22. I loved learning about the Neem tree and how it is used for toothpaste and as bug repellant. Standing in the huts was also one of the highlights of our field trip. A lot of times you see on TV how people live in these tiny huts, but until you stand in one and think what it must be like for people to live like this is unreal. While standing in there I thought about how lucky I was to have a house and bathroom to come home to. The Moringa tree, of course was so interesting to learn about. It has so many different uses; it really is a miracle tree. At the end of the day, I was so glad we went to ECHO, there are so many different things I could go on about. They think of everything, they come up with so many different ideas to using what they have to make what they need.
I remember the first thing the tour guide said before we even started the tour, that there philosophy is “teach a man how to fish, and feed him for a life time.” That certainly stuck with me for the rest of the trip. There work is certainly relevant in the developing world, helping to educate these poor and rural areas that have no type of agriculture education is huge. Because I’ve already completed my service learning hours for this colloquium course, maybe in the future for the rest of my service learning hours (I need 50 more still) I’d go to ECHO and help out.
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| A collage of my trip to ECHO! |
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