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Five years ago, members of the UN made a commitment to a plan of action that prioritised people, the planet and prosperity, and sought to strengthen global peace. Then a pandemic hit. 

In Afghanistan, the pandemic comes at a time when the country is grappling with deadly conflict, mass displacement, and a dire economy that has plunged over 80 percent of the population below the poverty line.

The saying ‘the home is where the heart is’ may soon take on a whole new meaning in light of an innovative project being trialled by Concern, in partnership with the Innocent Foundation.

As lockdown measures gradually lift here in the UK, elsewhere millions of refugees and people living in the world’s most fragile places are just beginning their struggle against Covid-19.

In 2019, Concern Worldwide made a positive impact on the lives of 28.6 million people in 24 of the world’s poorest countries.

The Syria crisis may have drifted from news headlines as the world remains engulfed in the Covid-19 pandemic, but the plight of the Syrian population remains urgent and ever more critical.

On June 16, the UK government announced its plan to merge the Department for International Development (DFID) into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in September to create a new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

The news agenda has been dominated recently with one topic, and one topic only: coronavirus (Covid-19). Here are three worldwide emergencies happening right now, that are not Covid-19 related.

Concern has built cutting-edge digital booths in Bangladesh to help increase the country’s capacity to test and screen people for coronavirus