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In 2025, disaster, conflict and global aid cuts have meant that more people than ever are in need of humanitarian assistance. Thanks to the kindness and compassion of Concern Worldwide supporters, we have stood together with those who have been most affected. Please watch our short video below to hear more about the impact we’ve made in 2025.
Last year, we worked in 26 of the world’s most fragile countries, helping to bring about change to lives and communities. We also responded to people’s most urgent needs in an emergency in countries like Kenya, Myanmar, Gaza, Sudan and South Sudan.
Kenya – Fighting malnutrition
Last summer, we launched an urgent appeal on the growing hunger crisis in Kenya. We heard from Susan* and her 11-month-old baby girl, Hawi*. Susan had brought Hawi to a Concern-supported health clinic in Nairobi, Kenya. The team identified her as acutely malnourished and in desperate need of life-saving support.
Children worldwide are living through a spiralling crisis of extreme poverty. And as a health and nutrition coordinator, seeing how easy it is for children like Hawi to become so dangerously ill with hunger is heartbreaking. It’s not just about the lack of food. It’s the catastrophic ripple effect on their development, their health, and ultimately, their lives.
Healthcare staff immediately put her on a course of therapeutic food, to give her the nourishment she needed to gain weight and become healthy again. Thanks to our supporters, we raised over £100,000 as part of this appeal to help more babies like Hawi, and to support mothers to fight malnutrition.
Myanmar – Responding to a devastating natural disaster
Myanmar was hit by a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in late March. In a country already facing a severe humanitarian crisis, the disaster’s impact was even greater and left over 17 million people in need of assistance, including hundreds of thousands of people who were displaced after losing their homes.
We joined with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) on an appeal to help those affected by the crisis by responding urgently to the needs on the ground. The DEC appeal raised over £27 million to help provide vital humanitarian support, like food, water and emergency cash assistance. Without this overwhelming support from our supporters, we would not be able to respond immediately to disasters like this and save lives.
Gaza – Aid to those fleeing conflict
Despite welcome news of a ceasefire in October this year, the humanitarian need in Gaza still remains. Thankfully, the ceasefire has increased our ability to safely deliver much needed aid to people who have been forced from their homes. Almost 2 million people across the Gaza Strip, almost the entire population, have faced extreme hunger and lack of access to clean and safe water.
We had to buy water, and my husband would spend hours in line to fetch water for us just to wash our clothes. In another line he would wait long hours to get drinking water. He would go from one place to another just to provide our daily needs.
Thanks to people who supported our Gaza and DEC Middle East Humanitarian appeals, we and our partners in Gaza, CESVI, have been able to reach over 100,000 people with safe water and sanitation facilities, like toilets and water tanks, and have provided hygiene kits with personal hygiene items.
South Sudan – Helping those who have lost everything
The conflict in neighbouring Sudan has meant that over 1.5 million people have fled to South Sudan, as well as more than 700,000 returnees, who initially fled conflict in South Sudan. Many face huge humanitarian needs after being forced to leave their land, home and livelihoods behind.
Continued conflict and natural disasters make the situation in South Sudan even more difficult. But thanks to your continued support, Concern has been able to provide the essentials people need to survive.
Last year, we reached over half a million people in vulnerable situations in South Sudan, providing vital health, nutrition and livelihood support, as well as food, shelter, water, and cash assistance for families to buy the things they needed most. These life-changing initiatives are made possible by the support of people like you proudly standing with those displaced by conflict.
Sudan – Ensuring families aren’t forgotten
This Christmas and festive period, we are asking our supporters to stand with us and make sure no one facing crisis is forgotten. The devastating conflict in Sudan is often called the world’s ‘forgotten crisis’. But we know our supporters haven’t neglected the 30 million people in need of assistance in Sudan, as well as those who have been forced to flee to neighbouring countries.
In the last year, thanks to the kindness of those who support us, we have been able to reach nearly half a million people in Sudan, including providing over 150,000 with access to health facilities and more than 8,000 severely malnourished children with the life-saving therapeutic food they need to make a full recovery.
Thank you to all our supporters
On behalf of all of us at Concern Worldwide and the communities we work alongside, we want to say a massive thank you for the impact you have made. Your compassion and commitment have reached every corner of the globe, and impacted 27 million people worldwide.
*Names changed to protect identities.