emergencies

Six months on since fighting broke out in Sudan, our staff members recall their experiences of those shocking first few weeks and describe the devastating impact the conflict has wrought on an already suffering population.

The 6th August marked six months since devastating earthquakes hit Türkiye and northwest Syria. At least 58,000 people tragically lost their lives and many more were affected.

At 4.17am on February 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Türkiye (Turkey) and Syria. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives and more than 50,000 buildings were reduced to rubble. As a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), we launched a joint appeal, raising over £100 million. This is where that money has gone.

The sheer scale of the impact that February’s earthquakes have had on the lives of people in Turkey and Syria is hard to grasp. This was, and continues to be, a huge humanitarian disaster, and the effects will be felt for years to come.

In the early hours of June 6, a power plant in southern Ukraine was severely damaged by explosions, causing water from the reservoir to flow violently downstream.

Prudence Ndolimana is Goz Beida Area Coordinator for Concern in Chad. In this piece, Prudence explains how the conflict in Sudan is exacerbating an existing humanitarian emergency in Chad, what Concern is doing to help, and what your support truly means to those in crisis. 

Concern’s Education Programme in Northern Syria started in 2018 with a non-formal education (NFE) centre for children who are out of school and unable to attend a formal school. There are now 11 NFE centres in the region, reaching over 3,000 children each year. 

Concern Worldwide’s team in Malawi are assessing the damage and preparing to distribute emergency supplies to people left homeless in the wake of Cyclone Freddy.