About us
Gorta's vision is of a world where there is no hunger. We focus on:
- water and food security that sustains life
- healthcare that saves lives
- education that empowers
- livelihoods that create prosperity.
Gorta’s Vision, Mission and Values
gorta’s vision is a world where there is no hunger or poverty and where the poorest 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 and water security, contributing to people’s unrestricted access to secure and environmentally sustainable livelihoods.
Our mission is:
To promote best practices in the area of sustainable long-term development in communities, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa;
To be a catalyst for the creation, safeguarding and transfer of best practice in food and water security; and to be a facilitator in channelling goodwill, resources and expertise to communities most in need.
In so doing, gorta will develop and promote models of pragmatic and effective best practice to be shared with those individuals and groups with whom we work in a spirit of partnership.
Values
gorta will ensure that all our decisions, actions, and stakeholder interactions conform to the organisation’s moral and professional principles.
These principles are the foundation for the organisation’s culture and values.
- Ethical
- Businesslike
- Donor Focussed
- Caring
- Partnership
- Innovative
- Inspiring
- Advocates
