VITA: EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS

Who We Are

Vita Impact is an innovative Irish development organisation leading bold, community-driven climate action in Ethiopia and Eritrea. We stand for climate justice—ensuring that rural communities most affected by climate change are at the centre of the response and share fully in the benefits.

With over 35 years of experience, we’ve built deep, trusted relationships with local partners and communities.

We build circular systems that grow stronger over time— shaped by local knowledge and transforming rural lives for generations to come.

What We Do

At Vita Impact we create integrated solutions that address poverty, climate change and inequality as one. Fuel-efficient stoves cut carbon and protect forests. Waterpoints provide clean water and improve health. Regenerative farming boosts food production and household incomes.

Community-led tree planting restores biodiversity and heals degraded land. The real power lies in how these systems work together. Each one reinforces the others—creating an exponential ripple effect of change.

This is our model. And it’s how we support communities building resilience from the ground up in the face of accelerating climate change.

Stoves

Forestry

Water

Food

OUR STORIES

OUR LATEST STORIES

“I Love To See the Bees Dancing”

“My name is Tsehai, and for three years I have been part of the forestry co-operative in Gelesse, a small community in Ethiopia’s Gamo highlands. These mountains rise above the Great Rift Valley, overlooking Lake Chamo, one of Ethiopia’s great lakes. It is a stunning landscape but life here has always been hard. The slopes are steep and rocky, too harsh for farming and for generations my family survived by living off the forest. We gathered firewood, wild fruits and honey. But when the trees disappeared, so did our way of life. Deforestation and climate change have scarred Ethiopia deeply. [...]

GOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY & TRANSPARENCY

Vita Impact is committed to maintaining the highest levels of good governance across our organisation and in our programmes. It is important that our donors, partners and the communities with whom we work have the utmost confidence in everything we do.