Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves – transforming communities and benefiting women in Eritrea The traditional stove in Eritrea is called the ‘mogogo’ and, like most homes around the world, forms the central focus point of [...]
A Cook Stove Cooperative Changes Ejigayehu’s Life Ejigayehu Shelin is a busy mother of five. She and her children live with her husband in the Shara kebele (village) of Arba Minch Zuriya [...]
A Cleaner, Safer Cookstove has Transformed Hundene’s Life – and Improved her Injera! In Mirab Abaya, in the village of Molle, Hundene Huka is one woman whose life has been transformed by Irish Aid and Vita’s fuel-efficient cookstove programme. With [...]
Onaway and Vita – finding solutions for climate-affected tribesmen in South Omo, Ethiopia “I want to stay here, with my cattle and my family,” so says Akula, the tribal leader of this [...]
Ngangati’s Camels have Transformed his Future In the Addo village of the Dassenech district in Ethiopia’s South Omo Zone, Ngangati Kabir lives with his wife and four children. In his late thirties, he joined Vita’s [...]
Empowering Women with Energy-efficient cook stove The majority of people in Ethiopia cook their food using polluting open-fire stoves. This way of cooking is inefficient, using a lot of firewood. Women can spend [...]
Amaroko Nekotelo Shares How Her Life Changed Through Vita’s Vegetable Farming and Irrigation Project in the Omo Delta, Ethiopia Amaroko Nekotelo lives in the Npusumuriya village in the Nyangatom woreda of SNNPR, [...]
A Community-Led Total Methodology Community discussion during a “triggering” session in Mirab Ber village, Arba Minch Zuria district. A community–led, ground-up model of development has long been recognised as the most [...]
