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    Please use the details below to contact Concern Worldwide (UK)'s communications team.

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    Samiro with her grandchild, Calaso at a settlement for internally displaced people, near Baidoa, Somalia. (Photo: Ed Ram/Concern Worldwide
    Press release27 June 2022

    Concern calls for urgent international funding to avert major humanitarian crisis in East Africa

    Concern Worldwide today called for urgent international funding to assist communities in East Africa experiencing the worst drought in 40 years, in order to avert a major humanitarian crisis in the coming months.

    Talaso Abduba, by a water point in Horrigutha, near by North Horr town in Marasbit, Kenya. Photo: Ed Ram
    Press release
    16 May 2022

    Concern (UK) disappointed with new International Development Strategy

    Our response to the new International Development Strategy. 

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    Press release
    26 April 2022

    Joint NGO statement on the Horn of Africa hunger crisis

    One of the worst droughts in a generation is currently unfolding in the Horn of Africa, combined with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, exponentially high food prices, desert locusts and protracted armed conflict.

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    Press release
    28 February 2022

    Urgent need to fund measures to protect world’s poorest from impact of climate change

    The findings of a major climate change report published today highlight the urgent response which is needed to protect the world’s most vulnerable people from the immediate threat posed by climate crisis to their livelihoods and very existence, Concern warned.

    A Somali woman walks to Concern's water truck to fill up her containers for her family in Odweyne in the Toghdeer district where water sources have dried up due to drought.
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    23 February 2022

    Lives could be lost in Somalia without urgent action – warns Concern Worldwide

    THE world’s hungriest country, Somalia, is in urgent need of support to prevent lives being lost as it suffers its worst drought in four decades, Irish humanitarian organisation, Concern Worldwide, has warned.

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    Concern staff treats the most severe cases of malnutrition among children under five in the Rohingya refugee camps. Photo: Darren Vaughan / Concern Worldwide.
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    6 March 2019

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    Our codes and policies shape our organisation as a whole and ensure that we are always staying true to our values.

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    4 March 2019

    How money is spent

    Accountability and transparency are central to our values as an organisation. In fact, they are part of our core values. 

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    How we are governed

    Concern Worldwide (UK) is governed and regulated by our trustees. All our trustees are non-executive and are drawn from diverse backgrounds in business and professional life.

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