Gorta and Self Help Africa join forces to fight poverty

Two of the country’s longest serving overseas development agencies have joined forces to fight hunger in Africa under a merger that will make them the biggest organisation of their kind in Ireland or Britain.

Gorta, which will be 50 next year, and Self Help Africa, which is 30 years old this year, will from today work as one agency, called Gorta Self Help Africa.

Members of both organisations ratified the merger at two EGMs over the weekend, and their tens of thousands of supporters and donors will be formally notified of the new arrangement by post this week.