Concern Worldwide news
Three year grant for agriculture programme
18 February 2010On the 10 February the EU Delegation in Tanzania signed a multi-country grant contract with Concern Worldwide. The contract is designed to increase the options for rural communities for making a living with the engagement of government and the private sector.
Marginal farmers in Zambia
17 December 2009Concern in Zambia recently published new research on the difficulties women farmers are facing.
Only numbers that count are lives
09 December 2009A combination of five aid cuts in just over a year and the surprise breaking of Ireland’s UN commitment date “will have serious ramifications for the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and for our international reputation,” according to Derek McDowell, Head of Advocacy at Concern.
Marking World Aids Day in a big way
09 December 2009Concern Worldwide India teamed up with BIG 92.7 FM radio station to create an outdoor studio, marking a month-long campaign for World Aids Day. The studio was built onto a giant billboard, the first of its kind in eastern India.
Hunger and HIV: a deadly combination
30 November 2009As we mark World AIDS Day, the global food crisis is impacting heavily on HIV and AIDS levels in developing countries.
Sixteen days against gender violence
24 November 2009For 16 days every year, organisations and individuals highlight the injustice of gender-based violence and campaign together to eliminate it.
Need for real leadership over hunger
17 November 2009Heads of states and governments gathered in Rome on Monday, for the third World Food Summit. They unanimously adopted a declaration pledging a renewed commitment to eradicate hunger.
Cross-party call to halt aid cuts
17 November 2009A group of 30 TDs and senators have called on the government not to cut the overseas aid budget any further.
Concern responds to mounting Ethiopian crisis
23 October 2009The Ethiopian government yesterday appealed for more than $121 million to feed 6.2 million people at risk of hunger.
Calling on MPs to take action against poverty
20 October 2009People throughout the UK joined millions across the globe over the weekend to call for an end to poverty and injustice.
