Shikurte Abderkader (34), is a smallholder farmer of Sankura woreda, Ethiopia. She grows bell pepper, potato, and wheat through irrigation for income generation and household consumption. Previously, this was not possible. The communal water distribution [...]
Ethiopia is experiencing one of the worst effects of climate change, Droughts. The recent droughts are the most severe that the country has experienced in the last 40 years, pushing millions into an alarming life [...]
The Story of Layhugni Berihun Layhugni Berihun is 36 and lives with her husband and five children in the Ata kebele of the Farta district in South Gonder, Ethiopia. She is, like [...]
Bigger yields and better crops: how Vita’s potato project is transforming the lives and livelihoods of farmers like Bihran in South Gonder, Ethiopia In Amhara State in the South Gonder Zone of [...]
Climate Smart Agriculture: Irish Potato Coalition Vita acts as the driver to coordinate a seven country Potato Coalition covering Ethiopia, Malawi, Eritrea, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Kenya. The Coalition involves Irish and [...]
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 [...]
Empowering Women: How Vita’s Goat-Rearing Programme is Giving Dobo Moti Dayina and Women like her, Income, Independence, and a Brighter Future “I don’t want to depend on my children anymore!” – Dobo [...]
Goat-Rearing for Resilience, Independence and Equality “Finance was my major problem. I live under saviour poverty. I don’t have any money to buy a goat” – Nyafera Nyaguam In Nyangatom in the South Omo Zone, it [...]
Meet Lula, Eritrea’s Dairy Queen This is Lula, a remarkable dairy farmer from Adigheda, a small village about two hours west of Eritrea’s capital, Asmara. She is pictured with her daughter, Fana, [...]
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 [...]
