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

    Deborah Underdown

    Director of Communications

    Direct line: 0207801 1857

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    Darren Vaughan

    Senior Communications Officer

    Direct line: 02890 261523

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    Concern employee Judith Cent distributing soap in Malawi.
    Press release22 February 2021

    Concern Worldwide responds to new devastating Covid-19 wave in Malawi where oxygen supplies are running out

    We're responding to a devastating new rise in Covid-19 cases and deaths in Malawi, where there is a critical shortage of medical oxygen.

    A Concern health screening clinic for children under-five in CAR
    Press release
    28 January 2021

    Escalating conflict prevents life-saving aid reaching two million people in the Central African Republic

    Concern today warned that the escalating conflict in CAR is preventing humanitarian organisations from reaching an estimated 2.3 million people currently in dire need of food and assistance.

    A child gets MUAC measurement assessed by a nutrition assistant at a Nutrition Centre in Gambella, Ethiopia.
    Press release
    14 December 2020

    Concern and Irish Aid to Host International Conference Marking 20 Years of Pioneering Malnutrition Treatment

    Concern Worldwide, in partnership with Irish Aid, will host an international conference early next year to evaluate and discuss the future of Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM).

    A distribution of hygiene material to help prevent the spread of COVID in Haiti
    Press release
    10 December 2020

    International research reveals the extent of the Covid impact on world’s poorest countries

    The Covid-19 pandemic is having a widespread and severe impact on some of the world’s poorest people, according to international research which surveyed people in 23 countries.

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    1 December 2020

    Concern Worldwide calls for international effort to avert multiple humanitarian crises in 2021

    Concern Worldwide has called for an urgent international response to meet the needs of millions of people and avert multiple humanitarian crises, including famine, in 2021.

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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

    Codes and policies

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

    Crops are watered. Central African Republic. Photo: Kieran McConville/Concern Worldwide
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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. 

    A group of mothers and their children in Mutembo carrying a load of recently harvested beans. Burundi. Photo: Chris de Bode/Panos Pictures/Concern Worldwide
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    16 April 2019

    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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