Women of Concern

Our Women of Concern event is a global movement supporting and building awareness of Concern's work to tackle gender inequality. 

This inspiring event highlights Concern’s work in 26 of the world’s poorest countries, explores the impact of supporting our drive towards global gender equality, and looks at how we are reducing inequalities faced by communities in extreme poverty. 

By supporting Women of Concern, your business will join a network of organisations from across Ireland enabling Concern to tackle inequalities and improve opportunities for communities in 26 countries, building a more sustainable and equitable future for all.

Join us this year at the Women of Concern Annual Lunch on Friday 17 October 2025, at The Round Room at The Mansion House in Dublin. 

We would like to thank EY for sponsoring the Women of Concern 2025 Annual Awards Lunch. We are so grateful for EY’s support of this important event again in 2025.

Each year, Women of Concern recognises an individual for their exceptional achievements and extraordinary leadership in gender equality - and this year is no different.

We are delighted this year to honour Berabose Aline Joyce, an impact entrepreneur and women’s rights advocate working at the intersection of health, healing, and community. 

She is the founder of LUNA, a femtech platform expanding access to reproductive health across Africa, and the creator of The Circle, a healing and wellness space supporting Rwanda’s post-genocide generation through safe spaces, dialogue, and mental health services. Through these initiatives, she creates safe, community-led environments where healing, justice, and wellbeing can take root.

She also serves as an advisor to the Rwanda Women’s Alliance and the Rwanda Feminist Forum, and has been recognized as a Mandela Washington Fellow, the Women in Leadership Award for Health & Wellness, First in Femtech Award Winner, and one of Rwanda’s 32 Women Changemakers in 2024.

Read more on Aline’s story and association with Concern here.

Women of Concern features inspiring people from our programmes around the world who act as inspiring role models for us all. People like Rabeya:

Rabeya is a participant in Concern’s Green Graduation programme in Bangladesh. Here she sits with unwavering focus, carefully assembling circuits for solar controller boxes. 

Before Rabeya started the programme, her mother worked tirelessly as a housemaid, struggling to provide for their family. Now that Rabeya is earning income to help support her family, her mother is able to stay home and care for them. 

This programme works to identify vulnerable families living in the squatter communities and informal slums of Bangladesh. Through technical skills training, financial literacy, mentorship, and access to financial services, this programme empowers people to build sustainable livelihoods, and “graduate” out of poverty.