Home About Us Programmes Donations Make A Regular Donation Legacies Other Ways to Donate Fundraising & Events Climate Change and Hunger Campaign Green Giving Just World Gifts Schools Vita Volunteers Vita Charity Shops Media Section Links Section Contact Us Site Map Privacy Policy          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   Make a Regular Donation:          Online Secure Facility By making a regular donation, you are helping Vita to develop and support income generation activities with marginalised and deprived communities in the Horn of Africa.Our approach encourages and supports people to use resources available to them to meet the challenges they meet in their everyday lives How you can help Vita Build Sustainable Livelihoods in the Horn of Africa: SET UP A STANDING ORDER TO DONATE TO VITA MONTHLY Click here to download the standing order form.                            €20 per month... €20 per month of your money will help Vita provide income generating activities such as bakeries for women like Elsa Elsa who lives in Haykota in Eritrea, and the women who live in two nearby villages, Tessenei and Forto Sawa – no longer have to work in these conditions. Thanks to your donations Vita has built three new, properly equipped bakeries.                   €50 per month... €50 per month will help us provide clean water Abrehet no longer has to spend four hours walking every day just to provide water for her family. Thanks to your support a well has been sunk and the water piped to the centre of the village of Endagiorgis so that now she only has to walk 50 metres. Now she has clean water and more time to care for her family.                   €100 per month... €100 per month will provide nutrition and literacy training for a community for a year Women taking part in Vita’s nutrition and literacy training. This programme works with 1000 mothers who are faced with food shortages. Training includes demonstrations and information about new fruits and vegetables.                   €150 per month... €150 per month will help families like Caleb’s to benefit from Vita’s Income Generation Support Caleb (17), pictured left, and his sister Eunice (16), were determined to keep their younger brothers and sisters together after their parents died of AIDS. This was possible through Vita’s Income Generation support. They rise early, Eunice makes doughnuts and Caleb takes them on his bicycle to sell in nearby small kiosks, before they all go to school. Caleb also plants corn and beans in their small plot of land. They have been able to buy blankets and food for themselves and their younger brothers and sisters and they continue to live as a family.                                              Tax Relief on Donations When you donate more than €250 per annum, Vita benefits from tax relief from the Irish Government. PAYE workers in the lower tax bracket who make a donation of €250 pa generate an extra €62.50 in additional income. PAYE workers in the higher tax bracket generate an extra income of €181.04 pa.          How do I apply for tax relief? Click to download the tax relief form here and print. Complete and return the form today to Vita, 73A Blessington St, Dublin 7. Even if you have made several separate donations to Vita throughout the year, you only need to fill out one tax relief form for the whole year.          Self Assessment If you are self assessed simply send your donation receipt with your annual tax return form as proof of payment, to the Revenue Commissioners. See www.revenue.ie for further information on charity tax relief for self assessed individuals.          Company Assessment A company may treat its donation as normal business expenses, deductible at the appropriate rate of corporation tax. If you need more information on any of the above, please call Vita at 01 882 0108

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