Vision Breakdown: That all can be born into love, live in hope and die with dignity.
• Born Into Love: Every child should be birthed by a healthy mother, assisted by competent caring medical professionals, into a nurturing family and community which deeply values his or her life.
• Live In Hope: Every loved child should reach adulthood, fortified by a quality education, quality he
althcare and a natural environment, to find the freedom to access the opportunities and resources they’ll need to live a healthy and productive life.
• Die With Dignity: All healthy and productive lives must one day come to an end. Each individual should have access to compassionate care at the time of death and the freedom to die according to their wishes without undue suffering. Mission Breakdown: To foster holistic health throughout the Himalayan region by training, equipping and apprenticing dedicated community partners.
• Training: Communities already desire to address their most pressing needs and issues; training communicates that they can, teaches that they should and shows them how to do so.
• Equipping: Along with proper training, communities need the appropriate quality tools necessary to complete the task at hand.
• Apprenticing: Although communities desire to address their most pressing needs and issues, they often lack the courage and/or vision to do so. Along with training and equipping, communities need an example to show that the task at hand is possible. ECTA believes that working side by side with community partners is the best way to exemplify and catalyze its mission and vision. Holistic Health: The integration and actualization of spiritual, mental, physical, communal, economic and environmental health
I. Spiritual Health is the thread which integrates all levels of health, enabling one to live in harmony with themselves, their neighbors and the environment on which they depend. Mental Health is the lens through which one perceives themselves, others and the environment. It is a combination of one’s knowledge/education, experience and psychological well-being. Physical Health is a core need and desire for all mentally healthy individuals. A healthy body is not simply one free of disease, disorder and pathogen but even more so one that is able to grow, thrive and heal. Communal Health is the cumulative positive interaction of all individuals at the household, community, national and global level. Without these positive interactions, individuals lose their ability grow, thrive and heal. Communal health is prerequisite to personal health at the private and public levels. Economic Health is the availability and equitable access to the resources necessary for individuals and communities to pursue healthy and productive lives. Environmental Health is the foundation which supports all health. Individuals and communities require a hygienic, stable, supportive and fertile environment to nourish their pursuit of healthy and productive lives
