Lokayan Life Diversity Museum
Lokayan Life Diversity Museum is a unique heritage, culture, and knowledge center established by ESDO to preserve, promote, and celebrate the rich history, traditions, biodiversity, and cultural identity of Northern Bangladesh. The museum features a wide range of thematic galleries, including the Grassroots Folk Gallery, River Gallery, Ethnic Minority Gallery, Liberation War Gallery, Traditional Toy Gallery, Traditional Musical Instrument Gallery, Science Gallery, and collections of traditional crafts, agricultural tools, household artifacts, coins, manuscripts, and folk heritage. Together, these galleries portray the evolution of rural life, indigenous communities, traditional occupations, folk arts, environmental heritage, and Bangladesh’s journey to independence. Beyond its exhibitions, Lokayan serves as a vibrant cultural and educational hub by organizing year-round festivals, folk music performances, indigenous cultural celebrations, traditional fairs, heritage exhibitions, educational tours, research activities, and awareness programs. These initiatives create opportunities for cultural exchange, community participation, and learning while encouraging younger generations to value and preserve Bangladesh’s diverse heritage. By connecting history with contemporary society, Lokayan Life Diversity Museum continues to safeguard the stories, knowledge, traditions, and cultural identity of rural Bangladesh for generations to come.
ESDO Shishu & Community Hospital
Since 2003, ESDO has been operating community hospital having 10 bedded indoor, outdoor, operation theatre and diagnostic centers. As continued process. ESDO Shishu Hospital has been propelled with capacity of 20 beds having all sorts of modern facilities. ESDO Shishu Hospital is only first and specialized hospital in Thakurgaon.
Aroni Mozzarella Cheese
Aroni Mozzarella Cheese is an initiative of ESDO that combines quality food production with sustainable rural development. Produced by skilled rural women using locally sourced fresh milk, this initiative promotes women’s entrepreneurship, enhances their economic participation, and inspires more women to become confident entrepreneurs. It also strengthens the local dairy value chain, creating sustainable opportunities for livestock-rearing farming families and rural communities. Today, Aroni Mozzarella Cheese is recognized as one of the finest mozzarella cheeses in Northern Bangladesh and is supplied to renowned five-star hotels, restaurants, and food businesses in Dhaka, as well as to customers across the country. Looking ahead, ESDO aims to introduce Aroni Mozzarella Cheese to international markets through export, creating even greater opportunities for rural producers and women entrepreneurs. More than a premium dairy product, Aroni represents quality, innovation, dignity, and ESDO’s vision of inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development.
Aroni Handicrafts
For ensuring employment in Monga period ESDO has established a different handicrafts programme named Aroni. Every year the extreme poor households in northwest Bangladesh face a very critical time from mid September to mid November. During this period, poor people don’t find work to earn their food in the locality. No employment means any income and a result starvation is a common phenomenon in Monga period in marginalized house-holds. In order to overcome Monga and creation of employment opportunities, ARONI has evolved as an enterprise of ESDO in 2005. It has brought about a considerable change for the poor in their livelihood through creating access to income generating activities for the women throughout the year.
ARONI is a bangla term, which means glittering stone by means of which fire is created. The fire is the symbol of light and hope. ARONI has already achieved considerable success in reducing Monga through implementation of rural handlooms and handicrafts projects. ARONI has got its own skilled designers, trainers and quality control sales to support these groups in enhancing their occupational capacity and maintaining the quality of their products. Women are making rural handicrafts such as Nakshi Kantha, Bags, Decorated Bed Sheets, Cushion Cover, Mats etc. and ensuring proper market linkage within the country and abroad.
Eco Orchid
Eco Orchid is a green livelihood and biodiversity conservation initiative of ESDO that promotes orchid cultivation as a sustainable source of income while contributing to environmental conservation and climate resilience. The initiative empowers women and local communities through skills development, entrepreneurship, and market-oriented flower cultivation, creating opportunities for economic self-reliance and inclusive rural development. By encouraging the conservation of native and ornamental orchid species, Eco Orchid also supports biodiversity protection, sustainable agriculture, and eco-friendly landscape development. Through this integrated approach, ESDO is transforming the potential of floriculture into a pathway for environmental sustainability, women’s economic empowerment, and resilient community livelihoods.
Eco Seed
ECO SEED, established on 11 July 2024. Eco Seed is dedicated to transforming Bangladesh’s agricultural sector through sustainable farming and agricultural innovation. Recognizing the challenges posed by climate change, ECO SEED works to improve farmers’ livelihoods by conducting seed research, developing high-yield and climate-resilient crop varieties, establishing agricultural research and seed processing facilities, and ensuring access to quality seeds and essential agricultural inputs. By connecting farmers with trusted domestic and international seed sources while complying with government regulations, ECO SEED is committed to promoting modern, sustainable agricultural practices that enhance productivity, strengthen food security, and contribute to reducing hunger and poverty across Bangladesh.
Eco Hollow Block & Bricks
Hollow Block is an eco-friendly construction material initiative of ESDO that promotes sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure while reducing the environmental impacts of conventional brick production. By encouraging the use of environmentally friendly building materials, the initiative
contributes to lowering carbon emissions, conserving natural resources, and protecting ecological balance. In addition to supporting climate change mitigation, Hollow Block creates employment and income-generating opportunities for marginalized and disadvantaged communities through local production and value-chain participation. Combining environmental sustainability with inclusive economic development, the initiative demonstrates ESDO’s commitment to advancing green innovation, community resilience, and sustainable livelihoods in Bangladesh.
Eco Safar
Eco Safar is a community-based eco-tourism initiative of ESDO designed to promote the sustainable social, economic, cultural, and environmental development of Northern Bangladesh. Guided by the spirit of “দেখা হয় নাই চক্ষু মেলিয়া”, the initiative connects visitors with the unique natural beauty, cultural diversity, and rural heritage of the Rangpur region, including tea gardens, indigenous communities, Kanchanjungha viewpoints, Tulip Garden, and historical sites. Beyond tourism, Eco Safar creates inclusive livelihood opportunities through homestays, locally prepared traditional food, and community-based social enterprise, ensuring that local people directly benefit from tourism activities. By linking responsible travel with community empowerment, cultural preservation, and environmental conservation, Eco Safar contributes to sustainable rural development while encouraging meaningful engagement between visitors and local communities.