How you can Support Us

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    This Christmas, Vita is giving you the chance to give the gift of life-changing climate action!

    This card is the perfect present for the person who has everything or wants nothing – except to protect our planet and its people. With this gift, you can offset a friend’s carbon footprint for 2019 with the proceeds going towards Vita’s community cookstove and clean water programmes in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is a small gift that makes a big difference!

    To receive your gift card before Christmas, please order by December 18th.

  • This Christmas, Vita is giving you the chance to give the gift of life-changing climate action!

    This card is the perfect present for the person who has everything or wants nothing – except to protect our planet and its people. With this gift, you can offset a you can offset a friend’s Christmas travel with the proceeds going towards Vita’s community cookstove and clean water programmes in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is a small gift that makes a big difference!

    To receive your gift card before Christmas, please order by December 18th.

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    Support women like Yordanos with the life-changing gift of clean and safe cooking

     

    By purchasing this vital gift, you are giving one family in East Africa the gift of not just a fuel-efficient and safe cookstove but also the skills and training to build and maintain this fundamental life source. This gift has never been more important. You see, just like in Ireland, cooking in East Africa is a way of bringing families together to share a feast and break bread. However, the very act of preparing this feast is harmful to families and the environment. Traditional stoves emit toxic fumes that cause respiratory disease and eye illnesses, they are inefficient and unstable, posing huge risk of burns and injuries and increasing cooking times. They also demand a huge amount of firewood that results in deforestation in already-arid communities and keep women and children in poverty by forcing them into hours of drudgery fetching and carrying heavy loads of fuel.

    With this purchase, you have put the ‘celebration back into Yordanos’ feasts and her home. This improved stove is life-changing for many reasons: the enclosed flame and chimney prevent indoor air pollution, its height prevents burn injuries among small children, it protects the environment by saving trees from being cut down and it reduces fuel consumption by 60%, meaning women like Yordanos and her children no longer have to spend hours collecting heavy loads of firewood. It is little wonder this stove is known as ‘Adhanet’ in Eritrea, meaning saviour. 

     

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    Support farmers and families with the gift of a sustainable livelihood and fresh food

     

    Thanks to your generosity in purchasing this gift, ten families will now have a reliable source of both food and income as they can sell the surplus fruit and vegetables they will grow from these starter packs 

    Now more than ever, as we live through this unprecedented pandemic, we are all realising the value and importance of reliable access to fresh food. That is why your gift has never been more needed. While we here in Ireland might wonder what the next few months will do to our food supply, food scarcity is a mundane reality for many families in East Africa who have only ever known a life of uncertainty, hunger and the unconquerable problem of too little food for too many people – a concern that is only getting worse as climate change accelerates. 

    Your gift will change this. Our fruit and vegetable projects target the most vulnerable families in Ethiopia and Eritrea to provide them with seeds, training, and skills that will ensure they can become self-sufficient and prosperous farmers. We particularly focus on supporting women and single mothers with this project. As they are often the most vulnerable, this project gives them an independence and income they would otherwise be without. 

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    Support small farmers with the gift that keeps on giving, the nutritious, climate-resilient potato!

    With this generous gift, you are giving families not only access to improved potato seed that will increase their crop yields year-on-year, you are also giving them the essential tools to permanently overcome poverty with training and support from Ireland’s leading potato experts. Just ask Tesfaye and Workinesh!  Before accessing Vita’s potato programme, Tesfaye and Workinesh were struggling to make ends meet, rearing four children on just €300 a year from their traditional potato crop. This low income trapped the Tole family in poverty, with little or no ability to overcome their hardship.

    Receiving a potato starter kit with improved seed and expertise from world-leading agronomists changed all this for the Tole family. The kit enabled Tesfaye to grow better quality (and higher quantity!) potatoes and manage his land betterFrom this, the family’s potato yield increased from two tonnes of potatoes on his half hectare farm to 18 tonnes of superior quality potatoes. This vast improvement has seen the family’s farming income rise from €300 to €9,000 a year. Their children are all now in full-time education, with Workinesh and Tesfaye using this income to give back to their community and set up further small enterprises.

  • So you want to offset your Christmas? Look no further!

      This card is designed to protect the planet and the people on it by offsetting your Christmas festivities, from the twinkling lights on your tree to the overworked oven, the cosy fire and the  central heating! With this gift of two tonnes of carbon emissions savings (two offsets) you can rest easy, knowing you that you managed your carbon footprint this Christmas while partnering with families in East Africa to facilitate clean cooking and clean water programmes.

    This card is for you, or for a friend, or a family member. We hope you love it – Happy Christmas from everyone at Vita and thank you for all the support this year!

    To receive your gift card before Christmas, please order by December 18th.

     
  • Christmas card to offset 2020

      This card is the perfect present for the person who has everything or wants nothing – except to protect our planet and its people. With this gift card, you can offset a friend’s carbon footprint for 2020 by partnering with families in East Africa to facilitate clean cooking and clean water programmes. It is a great outcome for both you and families in East Africa!

    This gift card is for you, or for a friend, or a family member. We hope you love it – Happy Christmas from everyone at Vita and thank you for your support this Christmas

    To receive your gift card before Christmas, please order by December 18th.

     

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