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

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    Health assessment on child in CAR
    Press release30 September 2021

    Concern Worldwide: Humanitarian crisis in Central African Republic needs international response

    Concern Worldwide calls for the international community to do more to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Central African Republic, where an estimated 2.6 million people are in need of assistance.

    Skeletal remains of an animal due to drought
    Press release
    23 September 2021

    Concern Worldwide working to prevent children dying from hunger during Kenya drought

    We're helping communities in Kenya respond to a devastating drought that’s affecting over 2.1 million people, including 111,000 children at risk of death from starvation.

    A man search goods in his destroyed house after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Manich, Les Cayes. Photo: Lucien Junior Telasmond
    Press release
    25 August 2021

    Concern expands aid operation in Haiti to reach thousands impacted by earthquake

    Concern Worldwide’s team in Haiti is ramping up its aid distribution operations to reach thousands of people left homeless and in dire need by a massive earthquake which shook the country on August 14.

    Landscape of rural province in Northern Afghanistan
    Press release
    16 August 2021

    Concern Statement on Afghanistan

    Concern has worked in Afghanistan for 23 years, since responding to a major earthquake in 1998.

    Haiti Emergency appeal graphics
    Press release
    16 August 2021

    Concern Worldwide launches emergency appeal for Haiti

    Concern Worldwide has launched an emergency appeal to help fund its response to the Haiti earthquake as the death toll continues to rise.

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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
    Info
    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.

    NFI materials being distributed by Concern in masisi, DRC. Photo: Kieran McConville/Concern Worldwide

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