Ireland’s young scientists experience first-hand development and climate challenges facing Zambia
BTYSTE development award winners visit communities and Irish aid projects
Self Help Africa
Zambia seeks green revolution but unstable climate threatens income of millions of small farmers
Profile of climate-vulnerable Zambia pre-Cop28: ‘The rain comes late and goes early’
More than €1m withheld from aid charity Gorta over governance concerns
Officials expressed ‘concern’ over charity decision to accept donation from rifle scope manufacturer
Gorta-Self Help Africa staff raised concerns over ‘questionable use’ of donor funds
Staff criticised support to charity co-founded by singer Alicia Keys as ‘costly blind alley’
Gorta-Self Help Africa: Staff ‘lost all confidence’ in charity chief executive
Investigation into Irish aid organisation makes several findings against chief executive
Internal report lays bare tensions within Gorta-Self Help Africa
Internal investigation into charity upheld number of complaints made by staff who ‘no longer’ had confidence in chief executive
'It’s embarrassing how good everyone has been to us': Glenisk rises from devastating fire
Yoghurt manufacturer's staff humbled by kindness of friends and strangers
‘I lost a chance to climb Everest, but these people lost their loved ones’
Wild Geese: Avalanche foils Everest summit for London-based engineer Paul Devaney
Trócaire joins Irish agencies to help victims of global disasters
Move set ‘to reduce costs’ and give the Irish public central fund to which they can donate
Young Scientist: Cork student wins with programme to detect ‘deepfakes’
Greg Tarr’s artificial intelligence system detects faked videos faster than current methods
Charities hope gift-giving campaigns will help fill fundraising gap
Gift campaigns take on additional importance because of impact of Covid-19
Six Irish charities form alliance to respond to Covid-19 in vulnerable communities
The group will assist countries ‘already struggling to cope with the impact of conflict and displacement’
How are Irish charities responding to the fundraising collapse from Covid-19?
Warning that fundraising collapse may see up to half of all charities shut this year
Shifting rainfall patterns a growing threat to farming in sub-Saharan Africa
Technology key to helping farmers respond, Irish NGO Self Help Africa says
The tree whisperer who has helped plant a million native trees across Ireland
Imogen Rabone started Trees on the Land to encourage landowners to grow native trees
Entrepreneurs in Uganda are taking control of their own destiny
Producing top-quality coffee and running a poultry business are just two recent success stories
Irish NGO plants 300,000 trees in Ethiopia’s reforestation drive
Self Help Africa joins the country’s effort to plant four billion trees this year
Former Operation Transformation contestant walks 10,000 miles for charity
Ronan Scully embarks on latest Bay to Bay trek from Waterford to Galway this weekend
Charitable Irish trading platform shortlisted for prestigious award
TruTrade has been shortlisted in the Index Project Awards
Climate change: Plotting an action plan for Ireland
Political bickering threatens to overshadow Oireachtas committee’s radical proposals
‘I live my life so that others can have a better life’
Health hero: Ronan Scully of Gorta Self Help Africa helps improve life for people in the poorest countries in the world
TruTrade cashless platform helps African farmers grow businesses
Software developed by Self Help Africa assists farmers in securing fair prices
Gorta-Self Help Africa wins €6.5m crop project in Kenya
EU-backed food production project focuses on production and processing of cassava
COP21: Chorus of popular dissent rises on streets of Paris
‘We have the last word, these thousands of us in the streets - we’ll continue to fight for climate justice’
Smith threatens to sue IFA over €2m severance package
Former general secretary also claims he was defamed by suggestions that he was ‘fired’
Full statement issued on behalf of Pat Smith, November 26th, 2015
‘He has no intention of lowering himself and getting into a brawl with an organisation’
Concern Worldwide and Gorta Self Help Africa may merge
Irish aid agencies are in discussions after board approval of move
Adventurers plan to swim around entire island of Ireland
Swimmers face stormy seas and stinging jellyfish as they begin four-month journey
Could you survive a 250km race through Co Donegal?
Endurance athlete Sean McFadden beats 63 others to emerge victorious in ‘The Race’
Let us sing a song of praise to . . . the Irishry
. . . to a deep empathy of strong ethical character
‘Ethiopians are confused when we ask about the famine’
Thirty years after a terrible famine in Ethiopia, parts of the country are thriving, others need ongoing aid to fight food poverty, and the government is taking a hard line on dissent
Irish agency expanding its work in Ethiopia with three projects worth €4.7 million
Almost 48,000 families will benefit from new projects planned by Gorta-Self Help Africa
President welcomes move to send Irish soldiers to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone
Gender violence and poverty are addressed in Malawi visit
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