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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Latest press releases

Delivery of medical healthcare equipment in Burkina Faso

Press release

21 June 2022

Student exam support, hospital supplies and food packages – a year of Concern Worldwide in Burkina Faso

Ireland’s largest humanitarian organisation, Concern Worldwide, has supported 87,000 people in its first year of operation in Burkina Faso, which is currently experiencing one the fastest evolving humanitarian crises globally, alongside Ukraine.

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Press release21 June 2022

Student exam support, hospital supplies and food packages – a year of Concern Worldwide in Burkina Faso

Ireland’s largest humanitarian organisation, Concern Worldwide, has supported 87,000 people in its first year of operation in Burkina Faso, which is currently experiencing one the fastest evolving humanitarian crises globally, alongside Ukraine.

Flooded shops in north-eastern Bangladesh

Press release

20 June 2022

Concern launches emergency response after Bangladesh flooding leaves 3.5 million people stranded

Concern has launched an emergency response following some of the worst flooding in years which has left 3.5 million people stranded in Bangladesh.

The Ardfield NS team which won the Concern Primary Debate final yesterday.

Press release

16 June 2022

Cork students crowned All-Ireland primary school debating champions

A group of students from a small west Cork school today scooped the country’s top prize for young debaters when they won the Concern Primary Debates Final.

Woman in Somalia with her 2 year old daughter

Press release

14 June 2022

Horn of Africa crisis – Irish charities come together to Sound the alarm as famine looms

Irish development and humanitarian organisations have joined forces to urge greater political action on severe hunger in the Horn of Africa at a briefing to Irish politicians in Dublin.

Press release

8 June 2022