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Friends of ECS, The Eleutheros Christian Society, which is now most commonly addressed as ‘ECS’ is a community initiative of multiple districts in one of India’s most backward regions in Nagaland. Landlocked and bordering Myanmar in the east, the work began in 1993 as a response to the problem of drug abuse which later got compounded with the prevalence of HIV among the injecting drug user community. The word “Eleutheros” is a Greek word meaning ‘someone freed from’ or ‘not depended on’. The primary agenda was to work for the health of drug users and yet the struggle to help them expanded our domain into the community, to address... READ MORE

Friends of ECS,

The Eleutheros Christian Society, which is now most commonly addressed as ‘ECS’ is a community initiative of multiple districts in one of India’s most backward regions in Nagaland. Landlocked and bordering Myanmar in the east, the work began in 1993 as a response to the problem of drug abuse which later got compounded with the prevalence of HIV among the injecting drug user community. The word “Eleutheros” is a Greek word meaning ‘someone freed from’ or ‘not depended on’. The primary agenda was to work for the health of drug users and yet the struggle to help them expanded our domain into the community, to address...

Eleutheros Christian Society (ECS)

ECS founder Chingmak was working as a pastor in a church in Tuensang, during this time his wife and co-founder Phutoli would keep nudging his conscience to quit his pastoral work and do something constructive for his own community.

An incident that happened around this time reinforced Phutoli's suggestions. A woman had nothing at home to feed her baby. She left the baby at home to get rice. She had no money, so she went to catch some fish and sell it to buy rice. However, by the time she bought the rice and came back home, her baby had taken her last breath. She couldn't accept the fact that her baby was no more. "How could you die when your mother had gone to get food for you?"...

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