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Susan* and her daughter Hawi* visit the Kayole Soweto health centre to measure her weight and height to asses for malnutrition. Photo: Shaloam Strooper/Concern WorldwideSusan* and her daughter Hawi* visit the Kayole Soweto health centre to measure her weight and height to asses for malnutrition. Photo: Shaloam Strooper/Concern Worldwide

Aid cuts are putting babies like Hawi* at risk. You can help keep life-saving programmes running.

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£48 could go towards providing a food pack for a family to help them survive for a month.

Around the world, nearly half of all child deaths under five are linked to hunger and malnutrition. Now, drastic cuts to international aid - including UK funding – are making it even harder for babies like Hawi* to get the food and care they urgently need to survive. 

In Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, 11-month-old Hawi* was brought to one of our Concern-supported health clinics dangerously malnourished — too weak to lift her head. Her mother, Susan, feared for her life. Our team was there to provide Susan with the emergency food she needed for her daughter to recover.  

But government funding that supports this treatment is now under threat. Essential programmes that provide this food to babies like Hawi are now at risk of being cut.  

Families who are already facing a crisis are now in an even more desperate situation - and they need your help today. These cuts risk undoing decades of progress in the world’s most fragile countries. 

A line graph titled “Aid cuts over time” shows the UK’s overseas aid spending as a percentage of national income from 2013 to 2025. In 2013, aid reaches 0.7%—meeting the UN target. By 2020, it drops to 0.5%, and by 2025 it declines further to 0.3%. Yellow boxes highlight the milestones: hitting the 0.7% target in 2013, the cut to 0.5% in 2020, and a further cut to 0.3% by 2025. The graph is displayed on graph paper with a hand-drawn style.
The UK’s overseas aid budget is falling from the UN target of 0.7% in 2013 to 0.3% by 2025.

At a time of increased need around the world, we need more compassion and kindness, not decisions that will have devastating and deadly consequences for people who already live in extreme poverty.

Sayyeda Salam - Executive Director of Concern Worldwide (UK)
A woman holds a young child in her arms. The child is eating from a sachet of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) and has food around their mouth. The woman looks down at the child with care. They are indoors, with a white wall and posters in the background.
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A person holds multiple sachets of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) in their hands, taken from an open box filled with more sachets. In the background, a woman sits on a bench holding a young child on her lap, both looking toward the camera. The scene takes place in a simple, dimly lit room.
This small sachet contains Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) — a peanut-based paste that saves children’s lives. But international aid cuts mean lifesaving treatments like this are now at risk. Lisa Murray/Concern Worldwide.

Your gift today will help us continue delivering emergency food and care to the world’s most vulnerable children, including those who are hardest to reach, like in rural Kenya 

We urgently need your help to keep these programmes running. With your support, children like Hawi can survive and have the chance of a healthy future. 

Please, if you are able, help provide the emergency therapeutic food urgently needed by children like Hawi. We’re determined to keep our life-saving malnutrition programmes running, but we need your support more than ever. 

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A young child looks directly at the camera while being carried on a woman’s back, wrapped securely in a brightly patterned cloth. The woman wears multiple colorful beaded necklaces and has braided hair, partially visible from behind.
Ngirethi holds her baby sister, Mary as they wait to be screened for malnutrition at a remote health centre in Turkana, Kenya. With hunger rising and aid cuts threatening vital services, families like theirs are left with few options — and even fewer lifelines. Photo: Lisa Murray / Concern Worldwide

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How your donation is used

85.4%
Overseas programmes

85 pence in every pound donated goes towards our emergency response and long-term development programmes, working together with people living in the most difficult situations to bring about lasting change to lives, livelihoods and communities.

Asma Begum (37) and her husband Abdul with their three daughters Lamia (18), Sadia (16) and Maria (5) and their grandmother Kulsum Begum (72) started CRAAIN in 2020. Asma Begum started as a lead farmer, received training and seeds. Before, she did agri activities but wasn’t very successful. She had received one ring composter from the local gov but no training on how to use it. As a lead farmer, she has supported 400 households in this area. She used to rely on her husband but is now totally reliable.

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  • 2.6%

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    We invest money to campaign, lobby governments, run petitions and put pressure on decision-makers to tackle the underlying causes of extreme poverty and push for change.

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Funds raised in response to this appeal will go towards supporting Concern’s programmes helping communities in extreme poverty around the world.    

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