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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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How your donation is used

88.2%
of your donation goes to Relief and Development

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

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8.6%
Fundraising
This is money spent to raise funds for Concern's work and highlight the needs of the communities we work with.
2.7%
Global Citizenship and Advocacy
We invest money in influencing policies and deepening awareness on issues around global poverty with the public.
0.5%
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Funds spent to ensure Concern Worldwide is managed efficiently and adheres to the highest standards.

Latest press releases

A Karo Enterprise employee holds an empty red and white RUTF sachet, which will be recycled into eco-friendly bricks and paving stones.

Press release

Turning litter into building blocks in Chad

A pilot project run in Chad by the Irish humanitarian organisation, Concern Worldwide, is turning waste packaging from emergency therapeutic food into solid bricks for use in construction.

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A Karo Enterprise employee holds an empty red and white RUTF sachet, which will be recycled into eco-friendly bricks and paving stones.

Press release9 July 2025

Turning litter into building blocks in Chad

A pilot project run in Chad by the Irish humanitarian organisation, Concern Worldwide, is turning waste packaging from emergency therapeutic food into solid bricks for use in construction.

Concern Worldwide annual reports

Press release

Concern Worldwide supported 27.3 million people in 27 countries in 2024

Concern Worldwide last year supported 27.3 million people in 27 of the world’s fragile and conflict-affected countries, according to the Irish humanitarian organisation’s annual report published today.

The team from LifeBlood at the National Transfusion Centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo: LifeBlood/Concern Worldwide

Press release

Concern supported project provides life-saving blood service in Sierra Leone

An innovative digital platform that tracks and encourages blood donations is revolutionising the sector in Sierra Leone.

Mother-of-four Amburo whose one-year-old son was severely malnourished but received the treatment he needed from Concern health and nutrition programme in Mogadishu, Somalia, before she received cash-aid from the Somali Cash Consortium to help them rebuild their lives.

Press release

Concern using e-money to save lives in hunger-stricken Somalia

Concern Worldwide is sending life-saving e-money to the mobile phones of hunger-stricken families with malnourished children in Somalia.

Ireland’s largest humanitarian organisation is calling for more respectful debating and peaceful dialogue as it marks 40 years of Concern Debates created in the mid-1980s with Irish schools.

Press release

Better debating skills needed to build a better world – Concern

Ireland’s largest humanitarian organisation is calling for more respectful debating and peaceful dialogue as it marks 40 years of Concern Debates created in the mid-1980s with Irish schools.

People gather with jerrycans and other containers to collect water from a tanker cistern in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip

Gaza Crisis Appeal

Half the population of Gaza facing famine
1.9 million people displaced
Over 50,000 children under age of 5 acutely malnourished

Our impact in 2024

16.8 M

people reached through our emergency response

5 M

people reached through our health interventions

2.6 M

people reached through our livelihoods programmes