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With so much going on, it's hard to remember what happened last week or last month. That's why we wanted to go back through 2020 in pictures - our year, one photograph at a time.

The results of a survey measuring the impact of coronavirus (Covid-19) in 23 countries has just been released. The conclusion: the pandemic is having a widespread and severe impact on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, including access to food, livelihoods and education.

On 25 November 2020, in his one-year spending review, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced cuts to the overseas aid budget, ending the Tory commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income on aid.

Situated on the outskirts of Nairobi is the largest informal settlement (slum) in Africa: Kibera - a vibrant but densely populated place, where the threat of coronavirus (Covid-19) is developing into something potentially worse than the virus itself.

Children all over the world have similar dreams and ambitions in life, but not always the same opportunities. We wanted to share these dreams through art.

We've launched a new programme that will transform the lives of those living in the world’s hungriest country, the Central African Republic (CAR). 

For a number of years, Concern and other development organisations have increasingly provided humanitarian assistance in the form of cash to achieve their objectives: in our case, ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes.

On August 4, a devastating explosion occurred in Beirut. Concern is on the ground providing emergency support to people who have had their lives devastated. However, we are not the only ones.

One aspect of our work that is rarely in the limelight but is vital to the wellbeing and recovery of vulnerable communities is Psychosocial support. In this piece we explore what Psychosocial support is, and why it is so important.