The annual newsletter of gort a 2011-2012
FACING DROUGHT CRISIS IN KENYA
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A Message From Brian Hanratty, gorta CEO 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.
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 initiatives. 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 to 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 -
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
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.
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A Message From Brian Hanratty, gorta CEO Could you live on less than €1 a day... Responding to the Crisis in East Africa Facing Drought: Crisis in Kenya Witnessing the growing crisis on the ground in Kenya Honey Business Creating Livelihoods for Rural Farmers
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 Food costs push 70 million more into extreme poverty 7
13 Make A Lunch Date Matter in March! 15 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 family, friends and work colleagues the Gift of a Lifetime! 18 Get more involved today!
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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Could you live on less than €1 a day... Highlighted below are the five principal countries in sub-Saharan Africa were gorta works. 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 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 GUIN
GABON
REPUBLIC OF CONGO
39%
4%
BURUNDI
6%
Health
ANGOLA
KENYA TANZANIA
ZAMBIA
MALAWI
Water & Sanitation
World Hunger in Numbers
• 60% of the world’s hungry are women
Kenya: Two in Every Ten
Tanzania: Seven in Every Ten
Malawi: Seven in Every Ten
MADAGASCAR
BOTSWANA
Livelihoods
• One in Five: Number of people struggling to live on less than one euro a day
SOMALIA
MOZAMBIQUE
NAMIBIA
31%
20%
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
UGANDA
ZIMBABWE
Food Security
ETHIOPIA
SOUTH SUDAN
RWANDA
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Education
ERITREA
SUDAN
SWAZILAND LESOTHO SOUTH AFRICA
Zambia: Six in every ten
• 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 Crisis
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 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
Above: 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
A
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.
Above: 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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Above: 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
250 Homes in Sagala Village now use Fuel Efficient Stoves
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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 and 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 the support of a gorta partner, the Tanzania
Forestry Conservation Group (TFCG). Seven years ago, Rachel attended a
one goal. Simply put in her own words
her eyes and a feeling of pride.
the region. TFCG is also constructing
“all the 250 homes in Sagala village use
forests against illegal logging.
fuel efficient stoves” with a twinkle in
to switch from using a traditional
fuel efficient variety. “Today” she says
take part in patrols to safeguard local
“I want my children to have another option in life.” The TFCG provides courses and training
African cooking stove to the modern
schemes, aquaculture schemes and
Through her involvement with gorta
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
TFCGs 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
Below: Tanzania Forestry Conservation Group participant Rachael Richard at home cooking by her fuel efficient clay stove
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Above: A group of women hold up a bundle of harvested ginger produce as part of a Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement initiative in Mnasi, Tanzania
gorta Funded Ginger Project Taking Root A Profile in Tanzania: William Francis Kihiyo
R
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, and has spare cash to inject into long standing family projects.
His story is not unique in Welei village or around the Korogwe District. gorta
and TOAM are helping farmers turn to ginger production to breathe new life
into previously struggling livelihoods. TOAM takes action by allowing farmers like William to bundle and sell ginger
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“helping people to help themselves is the only way the people of Welei can escape poverty” production together gaining a higher price and informing them of the
international market opportunities
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 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.
available for organic products. TOAM also educates and trains the farmers to improve the quality and gain
certification so their produce will receive a fairer price.
You can support farmers like William today by donating at www.gorta.org/donate
Planning the Adventure of a Lifetime? H
ave you recently taken on 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 your 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
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Above: 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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Above: 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
Steps Towards Equality in Malawi A
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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 undertaken 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
Above: 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 was 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. Above: protesting on Dublin’s O’Connell St is Michael Ojiambo, Kenya Freedom from Hunger Council, Chipangile Musongole, Environment and Development in Zambia, Rose M. Ubwe, Selian Agricultural Research Institute, Tanzania, David Ojara Okot, Programme support officer, Gorta and Dr. Jessica Fanzo, Bioversity International.
Food costs push 70 million more into extreme poverty At the gorta World Food Day conference held recently, CEO Brian Hanratty, severely criticised the fact that soaring food prices and food price volatility are yet another factor affecting the world’s most vulnerable. Price increases and food price volatility are caused by a number of factors including weather variability and climate change, trade policies, increasing oil prices and the emergence of new financial investors. As well as this there is the trade-off between grains for food, feed and biofuels. Price increases can then mean a cut in household spending which in turn affects families’ nutrition levels as they turn to cheaper, less-nutritious food. “This is an absolutely dreadful figure. The fact that food prices have caused 70 million people to be plunged into extreme poverty in the past year is simply inexcusable. Because African countries are significant net food importers, any increase in prices can result in a severe threat to their food security. Irish businesses have a long, proud and successful track record and it is time to harness that knowledge,
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from the private sector, in order for us to be able to foster young businesses in Africa – giving them the opportunities that we have enjoyed in this country. We have many programmes in east Africa - currently funded by our individual donors - which help smallholder farmers move from subsistence to trade but more can, and must, be done” said Hanratty. gorta recognises the important role that smallholder farmers play in sub-Saharan Africa as part of the solution to soaring food prices and price volatility. It is essential that the current focus on this issue leads to further investment in the agriculture sector, particularly focusing on new and improved technologies and by working with local partners to build their resilience to shocks, as part of a coping strategy. Jan O’Sullivan T.D., Minister of State for Trade and Development outlined Ireland’s efforts to combat hunger, particularly through tackling poor people’s vulnerability to the effects of drought, conflict and high food prices.
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 most vulnerable. To find out more 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?
T
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!
Why not get involved by holding
in a simple meal that is often taken
by making a lunch date in a Soup for
of people and their families around
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 creamy chicken, gorta is asking you to share
for granted and enjoyed by millions the world. However, Soup for Life aims
“nearly one billion people do not have access to enough nutritious food”
So whether a budding Jamie Oliver or simply a great party thrower,
why not join a Soup for Life event
near you, or organise your own one! Share a bowl, cup or pot of soup in the home, at work, at college and
get 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. Soup
for Life is endorsed by the Restaurants Association of Ireland.
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
Africa where gorta works with some of the world’s poorest communities.
Log on to www.soupforlife.ie to find out more about raising money for gorta through Soup for Life
Above: at the announcement of ‘Soup for Life’ are Cullen 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 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, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Their generous commitment is
volunteers are always needed to lend a
reflected in a survey undertaken
helping hand.
by gorta which showed over 40%
Events and sponsored activities
of gorta’s volunteers have been
are also very important in gorta’s
with the organisation for over ten
fundraising efforts. The best activities
years. Similarly, nearly nine in ten
to choose from are the ones you most
of the respondents say they would
enjoy yourself and almost any of your
recommend volunteering to a friend.
favourite activities can be used to raise
62% of respondents gave their reason
money - auctions, gigs, golf outings,
for volunteering as helping people less
concerts, sponsored walks etc.
well off or making a difference.
Whatever your motivation, whether
If you would like to join this passionate
you’re young or young at heart,
team dedicated to the cause of
volunteering with gorta is
alleviating hunger worldwide, there
are many ways to
get involved. From
donating your time,
Bright Ideas! Volunteer for Gorta!
Easy Ways to
volunteer for gorta!
nationwide, to joining
network. Collections
take place throughout the year and
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know your neighbours and
be active in your community while contributing to hunger.
ten charity shops
collection volunteer
the perfect way to get to
gorta’s vital work fighting
helping in one of our
our church-gate
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European Year of Volunteering In 2011, gorta has supported European Year of Volunteering, acknowledging the positive impact of volunteering on society and the value that volunteering gives to causes and communities at 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.volunteering.ie
To get a copy of “Easy ways
Bright Ideas!
to volunteer for gorta” contact
info@gorta.org or call us on 01 661 5522.
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 Recommen Volunteer your time in our Charity Shops
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orta has ten charity shops around the country
located in Capel Street and Lower Liffey Street,
Dublin, Carlow and Portlaoise in Leinster. In Munster, our shops are located at North Main Street Cork,
Bandon, Mallow, Macroom, Skibbereen and High
Street, Limerick. Check out our website for contact
details of your nearest shop. There are four main ways to help out. •
Become a Volunteer
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Buy Vintage Chic
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Donate old clothes/
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Unwanted presents/
books/furniture/DVDs
gifts
For further information contact Maggie Dwyer, Community Fundraising Manager Volunteer Gemma Ryan at the gorta Shop, Bandon, Co. Cork.
Tel: 087 7933 504 Email: maggie.dwyer@gorta.org Web: www.gorta.org
Above: Ann Wagner, Vol Main Street, Cork.
Lend a hand at our Church Gate collections 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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mend Volunteering
Wagner, Volunteer at gorta shop North Cork.
Above: Helping launch the 2011 Soup for Life campaign are Czed Bautista (age 5) and Ted Otengo (age 7) from Oatlands Primary School, Dublin.
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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
Buy your family, friends and work colleagues the Gift of a Lifetime! Buy a Lifetime Gift for a friend and support gorta’s vital work in the Developing World. Packed with ten exciting Lifetime Gifts ranging from €12 to €500, this range has something for everyone as well as something for every occasion. So whatever the day: Christmas, Birthday, Easter, 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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Get more involved today! easy ways to fundraise for gorta now gorta’s Volunteers
gorta’s volunteers are the lifeblood of the organisation. Along with
our donors, they represent who we are and what we do. They talk to
the public on a daily basis and tell people about our work. They do
this because they are passionate about gorta and the work it
undertakes in alleviating chronic hunger and poverty especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Church-Gate Collections
Above: from L to R, Conor Neylan, Deirdre Kingston, gorta with An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny and gorta CEO Brian Hanratty.
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.
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
Easy to do – Monthly Donations by Direct Debit If you are living in Ireland you can make a regular donation to gorta through a Direct Debit. You can use the form
overleaf, complete it and post it back to gorta at 12 Herbert Street, Dublin 2.
Giving from the Workplace Staff Payroll Giving – Employees can choose to support gorta
gorta has ten charity shops located in Dublin, Cork city
with a regular donation direct from their pay.
website to see if there is one in your area. If so, there are four
What will your legacy be?
and county, Limerick, Carlow and Portlaoise. Check out our 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.
e a real difference: Your legacy can mak awi: Goat farming in Mal Story Margaret Malausa’s
Get involved with Soup for Life 5th - 11th March 2012
and single mother in her 40s, Margaret Malausa is a with her e in Malawi. She lives she lives in Zimba villag an orphan. is who , niece her youngest son and with because to receive a goat both Margaret was selected se she is household, and also becau she is the head of her a role model for other as act can and r a successful farme . holds female-headed house to and plant maize. It is hard have “I have two acres of land, I manage. Normally I don’t plough it all by hand but I have this I use manure. Now that good money for fertilizer, but be 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 until ing breed ue contin I hope to given me one kid, and .” have at least six of them
Get involved with gorta’s major spring fundraising
campaign, Soup for Life. Gather your friends, family and
colleagues for a bowl of soup during National Soup Week
5 - 11 March and make a modest contribution to gorta’s work Check out the menu boards of one of gorta’s participating
gorta – The Freedom from Hunger Council of Ireland 12 Herbert Street Dublin 2
Tel: (01) 661 5522 Fax: (01) 661 2627 E-mail: info@gorta.org Web: www.gorta.org
Margaret Malausa, Zimba
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contributing to gorta’s for agricultural g cows Will provide 10 milkin
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training in Uganda.
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maintain their
Life and Hope.
training for girls to workWillofprovid helping e sponsorship andpeople a. family apiaries in Zambi g water’ project bringin Will help create a ‘safe to overcome hunger, in Kenya. water to over 13,000 people
€48,000
Will provide 50 comm birth attendants in 45 traditional malnutrition disease officers, training for and of a ‘safe water’ system
€95,000
unity health education
and construction in Uganda.
some of the world’s poorest
Further information:
countries, please contact us
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fighting hunger and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.
Charities rely on legacy gifts in order to continue their
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