Gorta focuses on Food Security & Nutrition; Water & Sanitation; Enterprise Development

Our Vision

Gorta’s vision is a world where there is no hunger or poverty and where rural communities have the means to create more prosperous futures for themselves and their children.

Mission

Through its work, Gorta aims at empowering communities to eradicate hunger and poverty, with particular emphasis on food security and nutrition, water security and unrestricted access to secure and environmentally sustainable livelihoods.

Our mission is:

•To promote best practices in the field of community area-based development, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on scaling up agriculture, promoting watershed management, facilitating access to markets, and investing in enterprise development

•To promote community social, economic and environmental development with emphasis on ‘the development of people’.

•To generate, share and apply knowledge by promoting research-based solution to local problems.

How we will achieve our Mission

Our intention is to contribute meaningfully to the eradication of the causes of hunger and poverty in the world. We are not an emergency relief organisation.

Our approach to long term development is holistic, multi-disciplinary and creative. We encourage integrated solutions recognising the inter-dependent relationship that exists between food and water security, health, education and social enterprise.