On the ground
The annual newsletter of gort a 2011-2012
FACING DROUGHT CRISIS IN KENYA
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A Message From Brian Hanratty, gorta CEO
Fundraising will remain crucial to our ability to respond to the needs of the communities we support. This year, our Lifetime Gifts catalogue – which existing supporters will have received – features many much needed gifts which can help transform families in desperate need, such as those in East Africa. Family, friends or work colleagues can request copies from this office, or by visiting our website which contains video reports on our work in sub-Saharan Africa at: www.gorta.org. In 2011 – European Year of the Volunteer – and beyond, we are deeply grateful for the generous commitment of so many people who volunteer for gorta throughout Ireland. These include our Board and its sub-Committees; County Committees; shop and church gate collection volunteers and a myriad of others who “help make hunger history” throughout the year. We continue to expand the range of fundraising initiatives
and the mutual benefit of greater trade and investment links between Ireland and Africa. In tandem with the work of organisations such as gorta, this initiative can only help lift families across the continent out of subsistence, moving away from poverty to more prosperous futures.
Above: Andy Cole, gorta Chairman, Pat McGrath, PM Group, President Mary McAleese and Brian Hanratty, gorta CEO which support our work, including National Soup Week (March 5-11th, 2012) when we encourage everyone to organise a simple “Soup for Life” event. We are delighted to note that there is a growing group of enlightened businesses who see their Corporate Responsibility programmes reach out to those less fortunate in the global community, and inaugurated the GORTA Global Corporate Responsibility Leadership Award last year to recognise and encourage such initiative. In the presence of our Patron, President Mary McAleese, that award was presented to CEO, Pat McGrath to acknowledge the commitment and technical support given by PM Group for our partner SCAD (Social Change and Development) in Tamil Nadu, India. The “Africa Strategy” recently launched by the Irish Government, recognises the continent’s diversity with over 50 countries -
The Millennium Development Goals The United Nations committed world leaders to eight time-bound Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at eradicating extreme global poverty and hunger by 2015. gorta is working at home and abroad to support and sustain focus on achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Contents 2 A Message From Brian Hanratty, gorta CEO 3 Could you live on less than €1 a day... 4 Responding to the Crisis in East Africa 5 Witnessing the growing crisis on the ground in Kenya 6 Honey Business Creating Livelihoods for Rural Farmers
7 250 Homes in Sagala Village now use Fuel Efficient Stoves 8 gorta Funded Ginger Project Taking Root 9 Planning the Adventure of a Lifetime? 10 New Project Bringing Hope Beyond HIV/AIDS 11 Steps Towards Equality in Malawi 12 Help Irish Boxing Champion Katie Taylor and gorta make hunger history
Front cover: Families queue outside a relief centre established in response to the drought crisis in northern Kenya. Howard Davies / Alamy
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As our Patron, President Mary McAleese completes her term of office; all at gorta wish her and her husband Senator Martin McAleese well in their future endeavours. They have both been a beacon of light, shining on some of the world’s poorest communities. We have valued their support, and look forward to a continuing relationship with her successor. Nothing we do could be achieved without the kind generosity of our donors here in Ireland and abroad. It is the strength of their support which makes gorta a vital force in the fight against hunger. As we approach gorta’s fiftieth anniversary in 2015, and the completion date for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals we vigorously renew our pledges to eradicate hunger and work towards prosperous futures for all. In this regard we wish you the best for the coming year and thank for your continued support of gorta’s work among the worlds poorest. Go raibh maith agat/Thank you! Brian Hanratty, CEO
Credit: MDG icons courtesy of the United Nations
East Africa is experiencing one of the worst droughts the world has seen in decades. Already, gorta field staff from Kenya and elsewhere have been deployed to assess the situation with the communities and local partner NGOs we support, especially in Northern Kenya, where over 3 million people are at risk. Prioritising their needs has resulted in identifying upwards of €500,000 needed to immediately address the most critical requirements – saving lives today and protecting livelihoods for tomorrow.
13 Make A Lunch Date Matter in March! 14 Nine in Ten gorta Volunteers Recommend Volunteering 15 Lend a hand at our Church Gate collections 15 Volunteer your time in our Charity Shops 16 Buy your work colleagues, friends and family the Gift of a Lifetime! 18 Get More Involved!
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Could you live on less than €1 a day... gorta works in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa highlighted in red below. Find out how many struggle to survive on less than one euro a day:
TUNISIA MOROCCO ALGERIA
LIBYA
WESTERN SAHARA
EGYPT
Uganda:: Five in Every Ten
MAURITANIA MALI
NIGER CHAD
SENEGAL
ERITREA
SUDAN
BURKINA FASO
GHANA
GUINEA
LIBERIA IVORY COAST
NIGERIA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
TOG O
SIERRA LEONE
DJIBOUTI
BENIN
GAMBIA GUINEA-BISSAU
CAMEROON
L TORIA EQUA EA IN GU
GABON
REPUBLIC OF CONGO
gorta % Spend by Programme Area
ETHIOPIA
SOUTH SUDAN
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
UGANDA KENYA
BURUNDI
39%
TANZANIA
ZAMBIA
MALAWI
Food Security
ZIMBABWE
4%
6%
Health
31%
20%
SWAZILAND LESOTHO SOUTH AFRICA
World Hunger in Numbers
• 60%: Percentage amount of women accounting for the world’s hungry
Malawi:: Three in Every Four
MADAGASCAR
BOTSWANA
Water & Sanitation
Tanzania: Seven in Every Ten
MOZAMBIQUE
NAMIBIA
Livelihoods
• One in Five: Number of people struggling to live on less than one euro a day
Kenya: Two in Every Ten
RWANDA
ANGOLA
Education
SOMALIA
Zambia: Two in Every Six
• 925 million: The amount of people suffering from chronic hunger today • 12: Number children under 5 who die every minute from hunger related diseases Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010, World Bank Databank 2011. gorta spend taken from 2010 Annual Report.
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URGENT APPEAL
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Responding to the Cris
Facing Drought: Crisis in Kenya
From gorta Regional Director for East Africa Rebecca Amukhoye:
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he World Food Program has declared the ongoing drought in Kenya the worst since 2000, as the Government of Kenya officially declares the prolonged
drought a national disaster.
Crops have failed and farmers are
In the immediate future, gorta is
The possibility of short rain spells from
scaling-up support for communities
struggling to keep their cattle alive.
October to December is the last hope
for a nation heading toward disaster. As the drought wreaks havoc across
Kenya, sixty-five secondary schools in the North East are closing down and
students are being forced home due to acute food shortages.
The high influx of new refugees is
putting severe pressure on already limited resources. Some 385,000 children under five and 90, 000
pregnant mothers require therapeutic feeding and general food distribution.
Below: gorta is scaling up support for partners in the region
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working to manage the situation by in Lodwar, in the severely droughtstricken Turkana region of northwestern Kenya. The project will
distribute highly nutritious food
supplements to children under five
years of age, pregnant women, mothers with young babies, the aged and the sick.
Another
priority is
to help all
our partner
organisations in the region prepare for
the coming
gorta Regional Director for East Africa Rebecca Amukhoye
season when
rains will continue to be very limited.
Partners and communities will need to significantly increase food production to meet the additional burden of the
growing numbers of refugees entering Kenya, and to help counter rising food
gorta is also providing further support
prices. For this, gorta will be helping
for families and intervening to protect
fertiliser and drought resistant seeds,
to projects restocking food supplies
to provide additional water resources,
farmers’ livestock in the East Pokot,
alongside effective training.
Kolowa and Tana River districts.
Support gorta’s work in East Africa now by donating online at www.gorta.org/donate
URGENT APPEAL
sis in East Africa
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Witnessing the growing crisis on the ground in Kenya from gorta Kenya Country Manager William Keyah
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ugust is a holiday time for schools here in Kenya. Like many parents with
children home for the month – I decided to stock up and buy extra maize last
week. It took two weeks to get one bag and I paid three times the price going this time last year. In neighbouring Nakuru, a major market town for local farming communities, supermarkets are now rationing. One cannot buy more than two packets of flour at any one time. Maize is going for between 140 – 150 Kenyan shillings a packet, double the same price last year. Recently, two youths came to me asking
the local area in the last three weeks
some food for themselves. I told them
died from what the doctor called
for work so they could be paid and buy I do not have work for them. “Give us
100 shillings then” they asked - “we are starving- we have been at the bus stop all day looking for work.”
I promised to give the boys two kilos of maize from the stock I bought the
previous evening. They saw the maize being delivered to us so they know I
have some food in the house. Within Below: Prices of food and fuel continue to soar in Kenya
where I live, four similar youths have “taking spirits on an empty stomach”. The indications are that the
livelihoods of rural households are
now reaching “alarm warning” stage
and worsening. As prices of food and
fuel continue to soar in Kenya, it is still unclear when the situation will return to normal.
gorta Kenya Country Manager William Keyah
Rains Spell Trouble Ahead Even if rains fall abundantly in Kenya in the coming months, the country’s problems will not be over. As heavy rains fall, the risk of widespread flooding increases, sweeping away surviving crops and livestock. Flood waters also increase the spread of water borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid, spelling further hazards for humans and animals. The rains will also have the effect of preventing emergency vehicles reaching those most in need in time. Kenyans are now pulled between hoping for steady rain to provide future harvests and making preparations for widespread flooding and disease.
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Selling honey in Musongole, Zambia, as part of an Environment and Development in Zambia /gorta programme
Honey Business Creating Livelihoods for Rural Farmers G
race Mwima, a mother in Nsamununga, Zambia knows first-hand the
rewards that flow from honey making. Struggling to fund her daughter’s
primary teaching training in Solwezi, with the help of a gorta partner
Environment and Development in Zambia (EDZ), she has managed to help her finally complete her education.
throughout Zambia: “through projects
like this, fellow women will be liberated by gaining self confidence and taking
control of their own lives and children”. By providing agricultural training
Grace is one of over 1260 female
on nutrition and business skills for 250
with your support, gorta is working
which has tripled the income of rural
is benefiting over 10,000 people.
the livelihoods of households and
participants in the gorta funded project women over the past three years by cultivating, harvesting and selling
honey. The project is co-ordinated by EDZ which is also taking action to
increase awareness of HIV/AIDS and reduce infant mortality rates in the region.
EDZ makes sure honey producers like
Grace get a fair deal by buying raw and comb honey at a fair price, allowing
them process and develop the produce into honey and beeswax products. The harvested honey is resold on and the beeswax can be turned into apiary
products such as candles and products for skincare. EDZ has used any profits
to send 150 girls from four districts to
school and provided training sessions
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women beekeepers. In total, the project
In total, the project is benefiting over 10,000 people. Another participant Madam Mwewa describes EDZ as empowering “There is no tool for development more
effective than the empowerment of
women. No other initiative is as likely to raise economic productivity, or to
reduce infant and maternal mortality. EDZ has helped us improve nutrition and promote health – including the prevention of HIV/AIDS”
Grace, speaking from her own
experience, is positive that the skill of
honey-making can be a tool for change
to promote and further improve
communities throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Support this project with the Lifetime Gift of Beekeeper Training. Trainees will learn how to care for the bees, harvest the honey and make value added products from the wax including candles and creams. To purchase from our full selection of lifetime gifts visit: www.gorta.org/give
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250 Homes in Sagala Village now use Fuel Efficient Stoves A Profile in Tanzania: Rachel Richard
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magine your life in Sagala village in the remote Usambara Mountains of
East Tanzania- heating water for a pot of tea demands a trek to the forest to
source firewood; a further 4 to 5 Km walk is required to source drinking water.
When finally reached, the local Kampala river will often be polluted with soap, fertilizers and livestock waste.
This is the life of Rachel Richard; a
mother of four who has lived in Sagala all her life. However, as she is eager to tell, overcoming such challenges
has been made possible with support of a local gorta partner, the Tanzania Forestry Conservation Group (TFCG). Seven years ago, Rachel attended a
one goal. Simply put in her own words
pride.
the region. TFCG is also constructing
“all the 250 homes in Sagala village
now use fuel efficient stoves” with a
forests against illegal logging.
twinkle in her eyes and a feeling of
to switch from using a traditional
fuel efficient variety. “Today” she says
take part in patrols to safeguard local Through her involvement with gorta
The TFCG provides courses and training
African cooking stove to the modern
schemes, aquaculture schemes and
“I want my children to have another option in life.”
TFCG fuel efficiency training course
and became the first woman in Sagala
join sustainable vegetable farming
to farmers like Rachel in 21 villages in
eight water storage and water delivery systems to provide fresh spring water to over 50,000 local people. With
TFCG help, farmers like Rachel can
and the TFCG, Rachel’s family have
built themselves a modern concrete house, sent three children to school with the fourth soon to follow.
However, it is the further education of her children that remains her number “I want my children to have another
option in life and to do ten times better than we have”
Support women like Rachel by donating at www.gorta.org/donate
Tanzanian Forestry Conservation Group participant Rachael Richard at home cooking by her fuel efficient clay stove
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A group of women hold up a bundle of harvested ginger produce as part of a Tanzanian Organic Agriculture Movement initiative in Mnasi, Tanzania
gorta Funded Ginger Project Taking Root A Profile in Tanzania: William Francis Kihiyo
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emembering when he first decided to switch from maize to growing ginger, William Francis Kihiyo, a member of the Tanzania Organic Agriculture
Movement (TOAM) reminisces “four years ago, nobody in the village had ever heard of ginger or knew what it was...” However, since the intervention of
gorta and TOAM, his livelihood has
been dramatically improved. “Last year alone the ginger crop outstripped my
maize staple crop by over four times.” William sold his harvest and from
the proceeds, is now building his own house with spare cash to inject into long standing family projects.
His story is not unique in Welei village or around the Korogwe district. gorta and the TOAM are helping farmers
turn to ginger production to breathe new life into previously struggling livelihoods.
“helping people to help themselves is the only way the people of Welei can escape poverty” TOAM takes action by allowing farmers like William to bundle and sell ginger production together gaining a higher price and informing them of the
international market opportunities
available for organic products. TOAM also educates and trains the farmers to improve the quality and gain
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certification so their produce will receive a fairer price.
Proud of the fact that with barely
any education, he has now risen to
become treasurer of his local ginger
growers association, he is thankful of the expertise and training provided by gorta and the TOAM . With their
help, he is now self sufficient - “helping people to help themselves is the only way the people of Welei can escape poverty” – he says with passion.
With gorta’s help, he now dreams of an
education for his children, beginning to
diversify some of the cash into different farming areas, and starting to build a better life.
You can support farmers like William today by donating at www.gorta.org/donate
Planning the Adventure of a Lifetime?
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ave you recently taken a challenge for a cause at home or abroad which
could inspire others to take action for gorta? Or are you planning to make
a real difference - to your local communities and do something meaningful for some of the world’s poorest communities? If the answer is yes then gorta would love to hear from you!
gorta wants you to write to us and
tell us about a challenge or cause you have already taken or are planning
to take for charity. Whether it was a
taking the challenge for gorta and
get colleagues, family and friends to
donate through the online sponsorship website www.mycharity.ie where
you can have fun building up your sponsorship profile.
To inspire your plans, all responses and ideas will be entered into a draw to win a signed copy of Irish Times Managing Editor Peter Murtagh and Natasha Murtagh’s new book ‘Buen Camino – A Father and Daughter’s journey from Croagh Patrick to Santiago de Compostela.’
four peaks challenge here in Ireland
Simply email your ideas for a
your local community, tell us about
info@gorta.org.
or a trek to Kilimanjaro or a run in
fundraising adventure to
your experience and how it made a
Or send you response to
difference to your life.
gorta, 12 Herbert St, Dublin 2
For the wild at heart who are planning
Fundraise Online for gorta
to go kite surfing, rock climbing, hand
gliding or go up in a hot air balloon - as well as writing to us, why not consider
Peter and Natasha Murtagh sign copies at the book launch of Buen Camino!
It’s just one click away! In Ireland check out www.mycharity.ie/charity/gorta If you are based in the UK log onto www.justgiving.com/gortauk
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Kitovu Staff Member Francis Sebbula buying produce at the harvest festival from gorta agriculture group participants
New Project Bringing Hope Beyond HIV/AIDS g
support created by this gorta funded
for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS’ will have provided agricultural training
of self reliance and hopefully mobilize
orta has launched a new partnership with Kitovu Mobile, a health
organisation in Uganda to bring hope and practical skills to HIV/AIDS
sufferers. By the completion date, the programme entitled ‘Agricultural Support and skills to thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS who are on stable programmes of anti-retroviral therapy. The programme is currently working with over 800 local beneficiaries.
Participants are provided with seeds, tools and training, savings and loans schemes for start up businesses as
well as care services and home based medical treatment. Kitovu Mobile is also providing a ‘trainer of trainees’ agriculture skills course to enable
four out of five people living with HIV/AIDS…are struggling to keep up with their basic needs
participants to pass on the skills they
anti retroviral therapy still struggle
communities.
to poverty and the stigma associated
have learned to other members of their Four out of five people living with HIV/ AIDS in Uganda and who are stable on
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to keep up with their basic needs due with the virus. As Kitovu Mobile staff member Joseph Senkungu says “The
agricultural programme will be a major step in giving people back their sense them to reach their full potential.”
gorta addresses all health issues by
focusing on hygiene and sanitation,
adequate nutrition, and the provision
of community care. gorta supports this project to bring hope and solidarity
among HIV sufferers and to positively
impact on their sense of independence and self reliance.
Support gorta’s work on health and education, by donating at: www.gorta.org/donate
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Steps Towards Equality in Malawi A
new study carried out by gorta partner -the Federation of Disability
thousand participants with hearing,
and their children are more likely to be poorer, less likely to be able to access
first consignment of loans have been
Organisations in Malawi (FEDOMA) has found people with disabilities
education and more likely to fall behind than any other section within Malawian society.
Not only do these restrictive conditions
“Lack of access to opportunity lowers confidence and self esteem”
people whose children have a disability.
The study was taken by the gorta
The study also found that restrictive
conditions that are placed on loans for
people with disabilities make it nearly impossible for them to access credit for enterprise or business start-ups.
target people with disabilities, but also According to Mussa Chiwaula,
Director of FEDOMA “For people
with disabilities, the lack of access to opportunity lowers their confidence
partner to discover appropriate ways
to give people with disabilities better
opportunities to create livelihoods for themselves.
and self esteem forcing them into
So far, FEDOMA has responded
of family and friends for hand outs.”
and loans groups involving over a
poverty and reliance on the goodwill
by forming nearly eighty savings
speech and sight impediments. The approved for grocery, fish vending,
restaurant and rice selling businesses. gorta is also collaborating with
FEDOMA to make it easier for parents of children with disabilities to access loans with more flexible terms,
following pre loan training and
enterprise development planning. With your support, this project ensures those with disabilities in Malawi are given back their independence and
self-determination through skills and training.
To donate to gorta’s work on livelihoods, go to www.gorta.org/donate
A group of students during a FEDOMA training session in Malawi
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World Food Day 2011 gorta held the annual World Food Day conference on 14th October 2011. The theme chosen is Food Prices – From Crisis to Stability. The conference addressed the ongoing causes of swings in food prices and what needs to be done to reduce their impact on the weakest members of global society.
Help Irish Boxing Champion Katie Taylor and gorta make hunger history
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orta is asking you to join World Boxing Champion Katie Taylor and get ‘Mad as Hell’ about hunger.
One in five people currently suffer from chronic hunger in the world
today and United Nations member
countries have agreed to the target
of reducing the incidence of hunger
by half – to no more than 420 million people – by 2015. However, with
almost one billion people now going hungry, global leaders will need to
double their efforts to meet this goal. The “1billionhungry project” is aiming to highlight this fact and is fully
supported by a growing list of NGOs
including gorta who are campaigning to end hunger both nationally and
internationally. An online petition at www.1billionhungry.org has
garnered over three million members worldwide to date.
gorta CEO Brian Hanratty has
stressed that critical challenges remain if the Millennium
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Development Goals (MDGs) are to be achieved:
“The catastrophic scale of hunger
in the twenty first century is quite simply, obscene. The figure of 925
million is higher than before the food and economic crises of 2008 and
2009, and higher than when world
leaders agreed to halve the number
of hungry people at the World Food Summit in 1996.”
Of the total number of
undernourished people in the
world, one third are located in subSaharan Africa where gorta works
together with Irish and international NGOs supporting local partners in
striving to achieve food security and sustainable livelihoods.
Show your support for the campaign and sign the petition today at www.1billionhungry.org
At an individual level, people living on less than €1 a day may need to skip a meal when food prices rise. Farmers are also affected because they need to know the price their crops are going to fetch at harvest time, which can be months away. If high prices are likely, they plant more and if low prices are forecast, they plant less and cut costs. On World Food Day 2011, we critically examined the causes of food price volatility, and looked to solutions to reduce impacts on the weakest members of our global society. Log on to www.worldfoodday.ie
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Make A Lunch Date Matter in March! What’s On Your Menu During National Soup Week March 5th-11th 2012?
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ake the opportunity to sip, slurp or swig your way through a fun Soup for Life event, while making a contribution to help make hunger history!
Africa where gorta works with some of the world’s poorest communities.
Why not get involved by holding
to share in a simple meal that is often
So whether a budding Jamie Oliver
by making a lunch date in a Soup for
millions of people and their families
not join a Soup for Life event near
your own soup event or participate
Life restaurant, hotel or cafe who will donate €1 for each bowl of soup sold during National Soup Week.
In 2011, over one hundred venues participated in Cork and Dublin
including well known names such
as Insomnia, Avoca, Itsabagel, Café
Paradiso and Fallon and Byrne. Soup makers Cully and Sully also got
customers jumping in the pot by
making a donation for every carton of soup bought during the campaign. Whether it’s tasty vegetable or
taken for granted and enjoyed by in Africa, Ireland and around the
“nearly one billion people do not have access to enough nutritious food” world. However, Soup for Life aims
to highlight the fact that nearly one billion people do not have access to
enough nutritious food to stay healthy. Over one third live in sub-Saharan
or simply a great party thrower, why you or organise and share a bowl,
cup or pot of soup in the home or at
work together with friends, family or
colleagues. Your contribution to gorta will raise awareness of the issue of
world hunger and gives much needed support to those most in need.
Log on to www.soupforlife.ie to find out more about raising money for gorta through Soup for Life
creamy chicken, gorta is asking you
Pictured at the announcement of gorta national fundraiser ‘Soup for Life’ are Cully Allen from Cully and Sully and Maggie Dwyer from gorta
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Nine in Ten gorta V F
or nearly fifty years, volunteers have been the lifeblood of gorta, committing their time and energy to the organisation and to the whole community in which they work. They talk to the public on a daily basis and tell people about our
work. They do this because they are passionate about gorta’s work alleviating hunger and poverty in sub Saharan Africa. Their generous commitment is
fundraising efforts. The best activities
gorta which showed over 40%
enjoy yourself and almost any of your
reflected in a survey taken by
of gorta’s volunteers have been
with the organisation for over ten
years. Similarly, nearly nine in ten
of the respondents say they would
recommend volunteering to a friend.
62.1% of respondents gave their reason
for volunteering as helping people less well off or making a difference.
If you would like to join this passionate team dedicated to the cause of
alleviating hunger worldwide, there
are many ways to get involved. From donating your time, helping in one
of our ten charity shops nationwide, to joining our church-gate collection volunteer network. Collections
take place throughout the year and
volunteers are always needed to lend a helping hand.
Events and sponsored activities
are also very important in gorta’s
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to choose from are the ones you most
favourite activities can be used to raise money - auctions, gigs, golf outings, concerts, sponsored walks etc.
Whatever your motivation, whether you’re young or young at heart,
volunteering with gorta is the perfect way to get to know your neighbours and be active in your community
while contributing to gorta’s vital work fighting hunger overseas.
Get involved and learn more about gorta by
contacting us at:
volunteer@ gorta. org or call us on
Bright Ideas! Volunteer for Gorta!
Easy Ways to
volunteer for gorta!
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European Year of Volunteering In 2011, gorta supported European year of Volunteering acknowledging the positive impact of volunteering on society and the value that volunteering gives to causes and communities at a local, national and international level. In 2012 we continue to support the tens of thousands of people who volunteer in organisations like gorta, making a huge difference to our lives. For more information log on to: www.volunteer.ie
01 661 5522.
To get a copy of easy ways
Bright Ideas!
to volunteer for gorta contact
info@gorta.org
From L to R: Margaret Besumbu, Manager gorta shop Liffey Street, Dublin with volunteers Sylvia Wase, Jean Tighe, Leah Halpin, Ann O’Donnell, John Tormey and Mary Idemudia (Below)
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Volunteers Recomme Volunteer your time in our Charity Shops
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orta has ten charity shops around the country
located in Capel and Lower Liffey Street, Dublin,
Carlow and Laois in Leinster, Cork City, Bandon,
Macroom, Mallow and Skibbereen and Limerick in
Munster. Check out our website to see if there is one
in your area. If so, there are four main ways you could help out.
• Become a Volunteer
• Buy Vintage Chic
• Donate old clothes/
• Unwanted presents/
books/furniture
gifts: .
For further information contact Maggie Dwyer, Community Fundraising Manager Volunteer Gemma Ryan at gorta Shop, Bandon, Co. Cork.
Lend a hand at our Church Gate collections
Tel: 087 7933 504 Email: maggie.dwyer@gorta.org Web: www.gorta.org
gorta supporters collect at Church Gates throughout the country. These collections take place throughout the year and volunteers are always required to help out. To find out more about gorta church-gate collections in your area or to get involved, please contact: Ann Byron-Murphy, Community Fundraising Co-ordinator Tel: 087 793 3513 Email: ann.byron@gorta.org Web: www.gorta.org
Above: Mariella Termine, gorta Churchgate Collection Volunteer, Dublin.
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end Volunteering
Ann Wagner, Volunteer at gorta shop North Main Street, Cork.
Helping launch the 2011 Soup for Life campaign are Czed Bautista (age 5) and Ted Otengo (age 7) from Oatlands Primary School, Dublin.
Above: Kevin Higgins, President of gorta and Liz Gowing, Manager of the gorta shop in Portlaoise accept a cheque from the pupils and staff of Gaelscoil na Sli Dala, Ballaghmore, Co Laois
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to €500, this range has something for everyone as well as
something for every occasion. So whatever the day: Birthday, Valentine’s, Communion, Confirmation, Mother’s Day,
Father’s Day or an Anniversary, gorta has the perfect gift for you. Log onto
www.gorta.org to make that purchase.
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What will your legacy be? Charities rely on legacy gifts in order to continue their
Get involved with Soup for Life Get involved with gorta’s major spring fundraising
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their good works. We gifts in order to continue Charities rely on legacy work of helping people contributing to gorta’s hope you will consider in some of the world’s malnutrition and diseases to overcome hunger, to families and gift will give life and hope poorest countries. Your
information on contributing to gorta’s
and single mother in her 40s, Margaret Malausa is a her in Malawi. She lives with she lives in Zimba village her niece, who is an orphan. youngest son and with because to receive a goat both is Margaret was selected and also because she ld, househo her of she is the head for other can act as a role model a successful farmer and lds. female-headed househo to and plant maize. It is hard land, of acres two have have “I I manage. Normally I don’t plough it all by hand but I have this I use manure. Now that money for fertilizer, but be good more manure, and it will goat I will be able to have has already happy with this goat, it I for the crops. I am very to continue breeding until hope I and kid, one given me have at least six of them.”
Leave a Lasting Legacy
communities for the future.
Will provide 10 milking training in Uganda.
of Life and Hope.
cows for agricultural
work of helping people to overcome €3,500
€9,000
to ip and training for girls Will provide sponsorsh in Zambia. maintain their family apiaries water’ project bringing Will help create a ‘safe in Kenya. water to over 13,000 people
hunger, malnutrition and disease in €48,000
€95,000
ty health education Will provide 50 communi s traditional birth attendant officers, training for 45 ‘safe water’ system and construction of a
some of the world’s Furth poorest countries, er information: in Uganda.
us a legacy to gorta to help information on leaving If you would like more or contact us at the call us at tel: 01 661 5522 of confidence. continue our work, please will be dealt with in strictest address below. Your enquiry
please contact us at tel: 01 661 5522. of Ireland, from Hunger Council gorta - The Freedom Dublin 2. 12 Herbert Street • CHY 5678 Ireland CHY No. IRL: www.gorta.org info@gorta.org
Your gift will give life and hope to families and communities for the future.
Margaret Malausa, Zimba
charities that have come is a consortium of Irish bequest in their wills. Legacy Promotion Ireland people to leave a charitable to a charity in your together to inspire more By leaving a donation will Gorta is part of this consortium. that you care about; you be supporting a cause will, not only will you future for others. that will create a better be leaving a lasting legacy
design: www.cronindesigns.ie
restaurants on the day. Log on to www.gorta.org/soup to
What will your legacy be?
What a gift in your Will
leaving a legacy or would like more
Pieterse
Check out the menu boards of one of gorta’s participating
good works. If you are interested in could do:
a real difference: Your legacy can make i: Goat farming in Malaw Story Margaret Malausa’s
All Photography by Pieternella
fighting hunger and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.
gorta – The Freedom from Hunger Council of Ireland 12 Herbert Street Dublin 2
to gorta through a Direct Debit. You can use the form
www.gorta.org
Village, Malawi.
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