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    Concern's objectives, activities and achievements in 2022 can be found in our new annual report.
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        Irene Togbah from Ceayah Town talks with concern workers Nelly Smith and Marie Madden about her struggles without a clean source of water. Photo: Gavin Douglas/Concern Worldwide.Irene Togbah from Ceayah Town talks with concern workers Nelly Smith and Marie Madden about her struggles without a clean source of water. Photo: Gavin Douglas/Concern Worldwide.Irene Togbah from Ceayah Town talks with concern workers Nelly Smith and Marie Madden about her struggles without a clean source of water. Photo: Gavin Douglas/Concern Worldwide.
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        90.3%
        of your donation goes to Relief and Development

        This is spent directly towards our goal of ending extreme poverty.

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          This is money spent to raise funds for Concern's work and highlight the needs of the communities we work with.

        • 2.3%

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          We invest money in influencing policies and deepening awareness on issues around global poverty with the public.

        • 0.5%

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        Amira* with her daughter outside of the tent where they live in Syria Photo: Gavin Douglas/Concern Worldwide *Name has been changed
        Press release8 May 2024

        New multimedia exhibition tells stories of people living through 13 years of conflict in Syria

        A new exhibition that aims to tell the stories of people living through 13 years of conflict in Syria, opens this Thursday (9th May) in Dublin.
        Concern Worldwide is supporting our Alliance2015 partner CESVI respond to the emergency in Gaza.
        Press release
        8 May 2024

        Concern launches appeal to fund emergency response in Gaza

        Concern Worldwide today launched a public appeal to help fund the immediate needs of communities in the Gaza Strip facing catastrophic food shortages and famine-like conditions.
        Concern Debates champions from Hazelwood College Aisling O'Connor, Amy O'Gorman, Regina Burke and Lucy O'Gorman at The Helix, Dublin in a competition that 177 contested...
        Press release
        3 May 2024

        Limerick school wins all-island Concern Debates competition

        A LIMERICK secondary school team won the all-island Concern Debates final last night after successfully debating that world peace is the defining task of the 21st century. 
        Concern Debates finalists from Hazelwood College school debating team Aisling O'Connor, Amy O'Gorman, Regina Burke, Lucy O'Gorman
        Press release
        29 April 2024

        Students to debate world peace in all-island Concern Debates final

        The importance of world peace will be debated by two secondary school teams in the all-island Concern Debates final in Dublin this week. Students from Ursuline Secondary School in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, and Hazelwood College in Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick, are the last remaining out of 177 school teams who participated this year in the debating competition, which is the largest of its kind in Ireland. 
        Aida (2) is screened for malnutrition during at a referral centre for children under five in River Nile State, Sudan
        Press release
        15 April 2024

        Urgent international action needed to avert impending famine in Sudan

        The international community must urgently fund a massive mobilisation of supplies and resources in order to prevent an impending famine in Sudan, Concern Worldwide warned today.
        People gather with jerrycans and other containers to collect water from a tanker cistern in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip

        Gaza Emergency Appeal

        • 1.9 million people displaced

        • 2.2 million people in need of humanitarian assistance

        • People need nutrition support, medical assistance, and water, sanitation and hygiene services

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        Our impact in 2022

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        16.4 M

        people reached through our emergency response

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        8.3 M

        people reached through our health interventions

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        5.4 M

        people reached through our livelihoods programmes

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