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World Food Day
Drought in Kenya – One Family’s Story • A ‘Lifetime Gift’ of a goat has provided stability for a young family • Climate Change – The world’s most imminent threat • Remembering Ireland’s famine and gorta’s heritage
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gorta’s vision: In 2009, gorta continued its work towards realising our vision of a world where there is no hunger and where the poorest communities have the means to create a prosperous future for themselves and their children. Tragically, that vision remains some distance away, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) estimating that the number of people suffering from hunger globally has now reached an historic high, caused by a combination of the world economic crisis, climate
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World Food Day 2009
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Elephant pump transforms lives in a community in Malawi
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Drought in Kenya one family´s story
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Climate Change – The world’s most imminent threat
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Creating Livelihoods and encouraging entrepreneurism among farmers in Uganda
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Pioneering Medical Vehicle bound for Zambia
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gorta and the Millennium Development Goals gorta has dedicated itself to working as part of the global effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals represent global leaders commitment to the world’s main development challenges. Read about gorta’s projects supporting these goals. Just look out for the symbols as you read.
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Yet somehow there are reasons to be hopeful. The past twelve months have seen the achievement of many successful and
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Credit: MDG icons courtesy of the United Nations Cover photo: Brenda Mavere, three years, student of Mthifu/Kantebede Early Childhood Development Centre, Malawi.
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dramatic improvements in the lives of thousands of people in gorta’s countries of operation. Some of these successes are highlighted in this newsletter.
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change, and stubbornly high food prices in many countries. The number of people living in chronic hunger now exceeds one billion.
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World Food Day 2009 Achieving Food Security IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Above: Andy Cole, incoming Chairman, gorta, Dyborn Chibonga, CEO, National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi, (NASFAM), Peter Power, T.D., Minister of State for Overseas Development and Brian Hanratty, CEO, gorta pictured at a conference hosted by gorta in Dublin to mark World Food Day 2009.
And this year, for the first time, gorta’s World Food Day Conference was accessible throughout Ireland - and beyond - via a live webcast on gorta.org.
The conference commenced with participation by the audience of over 150 representatives from
The conference was chaired by Karen Coleman, Newstalk presenter and former BBC correspondent. Keynote speakers included Richard China, from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO), Trevor Sargent, T.D. Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, with responsibility for Food and Horticulture and Professor Gerry Boyle, Director of The Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc). VIEW THE VIDEO of World Food Day Conference 09 on www.gorta.org/wfd09/
“Hunger, the economy and climate change are hugely interconnected, and they don’t stop at national borders. We need to get real about the world we live in and create dialogue to help us understand the nature of global problems, and come up with global solutions.” Brian Hanratty, CEO, gorta
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gorta CEO Brian Hanratty commented, “The economic downturn has reduced foreign aid and investment in poorer countries and cut remittances from those working abroad. This loss of income is further compounded by food prices that are still relatively high. Climate change will also affect agriculture through higher temperatures, elevated carbon dioxide concentration, changes in rainfall patterns, and increased weeds, pests and diseases”
the business, non-profit and public sectors in a Pledge to ‘Stand up Against Poverty’– part of a global mobilisation of over one hundred million people.
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On Friday October 16th, the global spotlight was on the critical issue of accelerating levels of hunger and malnutrition. In Dublin, gorta gathered a host of Irish and international speakers to consider the challenges and potential solutions to this, the greatest crisis facing mankind. The conference was launched by Peter Power, T.D., Minister of State for Overseas Development.
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Elephant pump transforms lives in a community in Malawi
Above: Chrisie Chikupa, mother of eight, collects water from an ‘Elephant Pump’, Ntocha, Malawi.
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Millennium Development Goal number seven aims to ensure environmental sustainability. It contains as one of its targets to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Tragically though, five million people, mostly children, still die each year from water-borne diseases. Many people in gorta’s countries of operation, usually women and children, walk more than three hours every day to fetch water that is likely to make them sick. gorta has funded the construction of an “Elephant Pump” in Ntocha Village in southern Malawi.
Action by gorta In Malawi, gorta is working with local partners to construct water pumps to ensure communities have access to clean water. gorta has used donor funding to construct an ‘Elephant Pump’ in Ntocha Village in southern Malawi.
Chrisie Chikupa is in her mid-forties and the mother of eight children. A native of Ntocha village, she has benefitted greatly from the construction of this elephant pump. Until recently Chrisie was forced to undertake a daily three hour journey to a neighbouring town to collect clean water for her household. “It is impossible to explain the difference this pump has made to my community and to my family. We can now irrigate our crops and more time is now available to spend cultivating them. However, most important has been that my children no longer get sick from drinking dirty water. Thank-you gorta for helping us.”
“It is impossible to explain the difference this pump has made to my community and to my family. We can now irrigate our crops and more time is now available to spend cultivating them” Chrisie Chikupa
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Drought in Kenya - one family´s story A ‘Lifetime Gift’ of a goat has provided stability for a young family
Above: Ronald and Lucy Kishoyan with daughter Joy and goat ‘Meroni’.
Gifts scheme (www.gorta.org/give), the family was also provided with a goat, named Meroni by the children.
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Action by gorta gorta provided support to the family by providing assistance with the construction of a new home and a water tank. Thanks to gorta’s Lifetime
“Before gorta’s support, all the rainwater just fell away. Now that we have the tank, I no longer have to walk the long distance to the river to collect water,” explains Lucy. “We are very happy that our goat is now in-kid, for about four months now. So we are expecting it to produce its kid soon, which will bring more benefit.”
“Our stored maize had attracted an elephant who tore through the house and destroyed it. Luckily we were not hurt” Ronald Kishoyan
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“One night, we were in the kitchen, my wife was cooking dinner, and we heard a noise...” explained Ronald. “Our stored maize had attracted an elephant who tore through the house and destroyed it. Luckily we were not hurt.”
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This year, Kenya has experienced a very serious drought. The rains that should have come in April didn´t. Cattle are dying, dead carcasses litter the landscape. The drought and consequent lack of pasture is estimated to have killed at least 100,000 cattle across Kenya. And crops have failed. Yet people don’t give up. The stories from our partners are of perseverance, not despair – stories such as those from the Kishoyans. Compounding the difficulties that Ronald and Lucy, parents of three young children, have faced, was the destruction of their home last year.
“gorta has helped us a lot. With the water tank, we are now able to harvest rainwater, enough for four months. The goat has also been of enormous benefit. It provides 3 litres of milk a day, which is enough for our family’s consumption and also we can sell some of it which provides us with extra income, which we are able to use to pay fees for our daughter Nanta to attend school.”
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Climate Change – The world’s most imminent threat - a personal account from Kenya
Above: A common sight in sub-Saharan Africa
Before I left Ireland to begin working with gorta in eastern Africa, climate change was an important issue. I knew that it was important – but it was remote and of seemingly little impact. I arrived in Kenya in May - a month when it should have been cold and wet as the rainy season drew to a close. Instead, hot and dry weather greeted me - great for the tan, bad news for the crops. Of the thirty million bags of maize needed to feed Kenya’s population, it is estimated that only 22 million bags will be harvested this year – leaving an estimated 10 million people hungry. And the government is unable to support them all.
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“When I arrived to Kenya, I learned one of the most important lessons of my life: Climate change is real and it’s worse than I thought. So what caused this revelation?” Suzanne Rush
And climate change doesn’t just mean failed crops. The ripple effects are many: Climate change means a lack of rain, leading to a lack of water for Kenya’s hydro-electric dams, which means no electricity, which in turn means no computers and no internet. Thus, many small businesses have collapsed. Climate change means children cannot go back to school because the cash crops that would have paid their fees have not materialised. Climate change means mothers and grandmothers must walk far from home to work or beg for food to feed their hungry families. Climate change means many pastoral communities, where they herd their cattle from one water hole and grazing place to another, can no longer find water and pasture; their cattle are dying before their eyes. Dead cattle line the roads to the livestock markets where emaciated cattle fetch poor prices well below their worth. The Maasai have wandered far from their traditional lands seeking pasture for their herds.
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Above: Suzanne saw how well-planned irrigation techniques could protect crops.
So how can this lack of rainfall be linked to human activity? Trees are of course critical to the regulation of the climate - reducing carbon dioxide in the air and thus reducing the greenhouse effect. The Kenyan government set a target of 10% forest cover – the level experts say is required for a country to sustain life naturally - but at present, Kenya’s forest cover is only 1.7% - among the lowest in East Africa. Huge swathes of forest have been cut down to make way for farms, to feed hungry sawmills, and to provide charcoal for household use. The result has been changing weather patterns over the past decade. The last two years have been the worst; as the rains have been inconsistent, late and unpredictable.
However, the blame for the current suffering of Kenyans does not just rest on their own shoulders for depleting their natural resources. Western countries are also guilty. Every time we drive a car, take a plane, leave lights on needlessly or fail to recycle, we are guilty. In Ireland, we aren’t suffering yet, but the most vulnerable countries are bearing the brunt of our mostly mindless and unnecessary pollution.
So what can we do? We can reduce needless car journeys, turn off lights, sort our waste and become more ethical consumers. We can plant trees. And we need not just reduce our own personal pollution but also call on governments to do their part. December 2009 sees world leaders meet in Copenhagen to negotiate a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol. This is our opportunity to help. We need to call, write and make noise to let our government know what we, the people, need. We need a strong and safe treaty that will lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions – by enough to avoid climate chaos. So if you do anything after reading this article, please write a letter to your local politician reminding them of the importance of a fair and binding treaty in Copenhagen. And perhaps leave the car at home and enjoy the birds singing in the trees.
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The area where I was based, in the Great Rift Valley, is a fertile highland that is quite densely populated. Almost everywhere you look are farms but not long ago this area was almost all forest.
Left: Suzanne in Amuka Subwani, Kenya. Suzanne is a 3rd-year student of a Bachelor of International Development and Food Policy at University College Cork. As part of her degree, Suzanne undertook a three-month internship in Kenya with gorta.
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Creating Livelihoods and encouraging entrepreneurism among farmers in Uganda
Above: Mungulonyo Income Security Group.
higher price at the market – thus enabling them to work their way out of the poverty trap.
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In the Nebbi district of north-western Uganda, 90% of the population is rural. Despite being very hard-working, the practice of subsistence farming with low yielding varieties of crops and livestock together with a reliance on traditional knowledge alone, has typically meant that the farmers here experience low food production and low incomes. A lack of entrepreneurial skill has meant that farmers have not traditionally ventured beyond working the land in order to increase income.
Action by gorta gorta has been supporting a Livelihoods and Income Security project in Mungulonyo to enable this farming community to add value to their primary crop ‘Cassava’ before bringing it to market. Following training and investment in some simple machinery, this group of farmers is now processing its cassava before selling it for a much
Cassava is a particularly important crop in many sub-Saharan African countries, because it grows well even on poor soils with low rainfall. The edible starchy tuberous root is a staple source of carbohydrates. Traditionally, these cassava roots would have been brought directly to the market to fetch a low price for the farmers. Now though, the Mungulonyo Farming Group is able to process this cassava into a foodstuff called ‘Gari’ – through a combination of peeling, washing, grating, drying and roasting. By processing cassava into ‘Gari’ even the bitter varieties can be eaten within a day of being pulled from the ground. This is incredibly important during the rainy season, when food is in short supply, sun and heat are not available for the traditional fermenting process, and households are in danger of going hungry. This community is now empowered to work its own way out of poverty and ensure that the healthcare and education of its children can provide them with a brighter future.
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Pioneering Medical Vehicle bound for Zambia
Above: gorta ENT vehicle prior to departure from Dublin
A Partnership Approach gorta has been working with Dr. Kieran O’Driscoll, a consultant Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) surgeon based in Tullamore Hospital, to develop an innovative solution to a critical healthcare need in Zambia with a groundbreaking ENT vehicle. The vehicle will function as a mobile clinic, visiting rural locations outside the capital city of Lusaka to offer out-patient services and treatments for ENT conditions. The mobile clinic will also serve as a transportation vehicle for more serious cases to bring patients to the Beit Cure hospital in the city. “It’s a tragedy to be poor in Zambia, but if you’re deaf and poor you haven’t a hope,” says Dr. O’Driscoll, who for the past six years has visited Zambia twice a year to use his skills. The introduction of this vehicle will provide life enhancing surgery for thousands of people who cannot access the main hospital due to the distance they would need to walk. “I suppose there are three heartaches. Firstly there are children dying because they can’t get
the foreign bodies out of their ears. Then there are kids who die of chronic ear disease or get brain abscesses and meningitis and die. And then there’s the kids who can’t have their hearing restored because they haven’t got a hearing aid and they can’t get surgery to restore their hearing. So they’re the main elements.” Dr. O’Driscoll remains hopeful however: “Zambia is a beautiful country. But it’s poverty stricken. With the plan that we have for ENT, I think that there will be a way forward with a view to becoming self- sufficient with ENT surgeons.” The mobile clinic was specially constructed by CAFCO Dublin, with invaluable advice and support from the Irish Army. In addition, Irish medical company Eurosurgical supplied medical equipment. It is hoped that the pioneering vehicle, the first of its kind, will become operational in Zambia in early 2010.
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Education in a Kenyan Village The Brendan Keating Memorial Fund
Above: Cynthia, Catherine, Faith, Sheilah, Sharon, Phedilis and Damaris, students of Siloba School, Kenya.
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a community where education had traditionally been undervalued, parents are now hoping that this school can expand to be able to educate the children through the full Primary School cycle.
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Six years ago, the life of Dubliner Brendan Keating was tragically cut short when he died of a heart attack at the age of 35. Brendan’s friends decided to set up a committee to raise funds in his memory and the following year, they contacted gorta expressing the wish of directing a substantial donation towards gorta’s work in sub-Saharan Africa. With funds raised by work colleagues, friends and family, a cheque for €56,721 was presented by the Brendan Keating Memorial Fund in September 2004, which was immediately put to work a water renewal project in northern Tanzania and the building of a pre-school facility in western Kenya. Siloba Early Childhood Education Centre enrolled its first students in January 2005 and gorta has remained in contact with the school since. During his most recent visit, William Keyah, gorta’s country representative in Kenya found that the school has been such a success that, in
Although the school has made a tremendous difference to the community, there are some children who have been unable to access the school because they live on the far side of a river with no bridge. Shortly after gorta began exploring solutions to this problem, the Brendan Keating Memorial Fund contacted gorta with the possibility that it might be able to provide additional support to the Siloba school. In August 2009, gorta’s CEO, Brian Hanratty, was invited to attend their annual Golf Classic fundraising event, held in Ashbourne Golf Club in Co. Meath. The Brendan Keating Memorial Fund presented a cheque for €10,000 from the proceeds of this fundraising event, with the aim of continuing to improve lives within the Siloba community in western Kenya.
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Remembering Ireland’s famine and gorta’s heritage
Left: gorta Volunteers, including Pauline O’Sullivan, Chairperson of gorta’s Skibbereen Branch, honoured by Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív and gorta Chairman Deirdre Fox on National Famine Commemoration Day 2009 in Skibbereen, Co. Cork.
The recollection of what Irish people endured through chronic hunger during the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1849 was what helped inspire the establishment of gorta in 1965. It is this same recollection which creates the sense of solidarity that many Irish people still feel today with those continuing to go hungry in the world’s poorest countries. In what will now be an annual event held in a different province each year, victims of the Irish Famine were remembered on May 17th 2009 with a State Commemoration in Skibbereen, Co. Cork. Politicians, ambassadors and diplomats from 20 countries participated in a formal wreathlaying ceremony. Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó’Cuív then met with almost one hundred local volunteers who manage the gorta charity shop in Skibbereen. Recognising the outstanding record of active citizenship in the town of Skibbereen, Minister Ó’Cuív, together with former gorta Chairman Deirdre Fox and Chair of the local gorta shop committee, Pauline O’Sullivan, presented a special certificate and medallion (struck by
the local Skibbereen Famine Commemoration Committee) to almost 100 gorta volunteers at a special ceremony. Minister O’Cuív explained how a lot of people had asked him what the reasoning was behind having a National Famine Commemoration Day. O’Cuív said there were two primary reasons: the first was to remember the victims of the Great Irish Famine, “but also, very importantly, the second reason is to remember those today, who suffer from hunger throughout the world.” He added “I would like to pay tribute to all of those who work for that cause, because that’s today’s cause, and it’s a cause which, I think, we in Ireland are particularly conscious of.” Chair of the local gorta shop committee, Pauline O’Sullivan, thanked the Minister for his public recognition of gorta’s volunteers but relayed the disappointment of many within gorta’s volunteer base at the Government’s recent cuts in the Irish Aid budget. O’Sullivan noted how she hoped that “as soon as the recession lifts, the Government will reprioritise the very important issue of hunger in the world.”
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Do you feel you could lend a hand? Further information on volunteering with gorta is available from Ann Byron Murphy at tel 01 6615522 or by emailing volunteer@gorta.org
Charity Shops gorta has ten charity shops around the country. Check out our website to see if there is one in your area. If so, there are four main ways you could help out: (a) become a volunteer, (b) buy vintage chic, (c) donate clothes/books/furniture/ CDs/DVDs etc, or (d) donate unwanted presents/ gifts.
Church Gate Collections For over forty years, gorta supporters have collected at Church Gates throughout the country. These collections take place throughout the year and volunteers are always required to help out.
Fundraising with Family and Friends The best fundraising activity to choose is the one that you enjoy most e.g. art exhibitions and auctions, concerts, coffee mornings, carol singing, fashion shows, golf outings, marathons or an office quiz. Donate through the online sponsorship website www.mycharity.ie or www.justgiving.co.uk if you are based in the UK, where you can have fun building your sponsorship profile while raising money for gorta in the process.
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Buy your friends and family the Gift of a Lifetime! Support gorta’s vital work in the Developing World. Packed with exciting Lifetime Gifts ranging from €12 to €700, this range has something for everyone as well as something for every occasion. So whatever the day: Birthday, Mother’s Day, or Anniversary, log onto www.gorta.org to make that purchase.
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Giving from the Workplace Staff Payroll Giving – Employees can choose to support gorta with a regular donation direct from their pay. Remember that for the price of a pint once a week, three mosquito nets for children in sub-Saharan Africa can be purchased every month, thus helping to reduce instances of Malaria in that region.
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