Home About Us Programmes Donations Fundraising & Events Climate Change and Hunger Campaign Green Giving Just World Gifts Schools Vita Volunteers Vita Charity Shops News Links Section Contact Us          Sign up for our email newsletter If you would like to hear more about Vita’s work , fill in your email address below Name Email                                                                                       Online Secure Facility Latest News                 The Legacy of Fr. Kevin Doheny Vita is commemorating the 10th anniversay of the death of our founder, Fr. Kevin Doheny who set up Refugee Trust (now, Vita) after his work in Chencha during the 1974 Ethiopian Famine. We ask you to support the Emergency Summer Planting Appeal to help us continue his Legacy in Africa. - Click to read The Irish Catholic Article - Summer Planting Appeal        Evening for Africa Success Dancing African style at the Evening of African Culture, organised by Vita and attended by more than 200 people at the European Commission office, Dublin were Adyam Amanuel, Smret Kashai and Asmeret Teklai from Eritrea Click here for photos...        Magic Stoves Made from Mud Deirdre Lynam of the European Commission (on the left) and Anne Maria Dennisson, national president of the Irish Countrywomen's Association with a model of the magic fuel-efficient stove which is being built locally in Eritrea.        Watch a video of women making the magic stove        Join us for the opportunity of a lifetime! Vita needs you to join our team for the Great Ethiopian Run 2010 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Click here to read more..        Award-Winning Vita Stoves and Edible Trees Changing Lives with a Green Footprint Vita is empowering women in Eritrea by providing them with the local resources and training needed to build their own fuel-efficient stoves and plant edible Moringa 'Miracle' trees. The trees can be used as food, fuel, water purification, rope, soap and even medicine. The award-winning stove design reduces fuel consumption by 60% and eliminates smoke in the house. The project also helps the environment by offsetsing the equivalent of 5.5 tonnes of CO2 emmissions per household.        Click here to offset your carbon footprint and help us change the lives of women in Africa        Click here to enter the shop                        Bring Business to the Table to Fight World Hunger John Weakliam, CEO of Vita, advocates for a new approach which enables communities in Africa to adopt initiatives which support sustainable living. He further calls on Irish business to help change how hunger is tackled and says that business has much to gain in the process. - Read full article - Corporate Support Information        Éanna - the birds, the bees and Vita Éanna ní Lamhna, the popular wildlife expert and star of The Mooney Show on RTE Radio One, talks around Ireland about the work of Vita and Eritrea and Ethiopia. Eanna was at Dublin Federation of the ICA at Liberty Hall, Dublin and Thomastown ICA guild in Co. Kilkenny. She is a member of the Vita programme strategy and monitoring sub-committee. Vita Update Newsletters        Vita Update April 2010 Vita Update December 09 Vita Update April 09 Vita Update December 08 Vita Update September 08 Vita Update April 08        Multiply your Money! Claim Tax Relief for 2009 If you are a PAYE only tax payer, and have given €250 or more to Vita in the course of a tax year, Vita can reclaim the tax paid on your donations. Your details are confidential to Vita and the Revenue Commissioners. The information will not be used for anything other than the tax claim. Once a year Vita automatically mails a tax relief form to all individual donors whose donations qualify for a tax reclaim. We will soon be sending out the forms for 2009 reclaims.        Vita Acknowledges the Funding of Irish Aid and EuropeAid Vita is delighted to acknowledge the vital contribution of Department of Foreign Affairs, through Irish Aid, to Vita’s Sustainable Livelihoods Programme in the Horn of Africa. Irish Aid has been pro-active in supporting organisational development at Vita, in addition to providing a block grant for the period 2008-2010 from the Civil Society Fund. Vita also acknowledges the funding contribution of the European Union to Vita’s Eritrean and Ethiopian Livelihoods Programmes through EuropeAid’s Forestry and Environment Programme and the Food Facility - Facility for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries. The EU has also recently awarded Vita with a fund of €3m for the implementation of three new food security projects in Africa.                 Click here to measure your carbon footprint now          .

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