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The long-term effects of hunger on maternal health can carry over into the health of newborns, and carry a lifelong impact. But that can be changed.

The programme targets budding entrepreneurs in poor and extremely poor households, and helps them in reaching their business goals. 

A youth group in Haiti has shown the reality of living alongside conflict in a powerful photo exhibition. 

The Titukuke Scheme in Mkulira village, Mwanza, has used a solar-powered water pump to change the way they grow crops. 

Irish humanitarian organisation, Concern Worldwide, welcomes the decision today by the United Nations Security Council to renew authorisation of cross-border delivery of humanitarian aid from Türkiye into northwest Syria for a further six months.

More funding must be made immediately available to agencies responding with communities in great distress or many more people will die in Somalia, said Concern in response to the latest IPC report. 

The humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa is dire with the number of people in need of assistance continuing to climb, Concern’s Regional Director Amina Abdulla has warned. Unless there is a major international response in the coming weeks, it will become a crisis which will be beyond the capacity of humanitarian organisations to contain.

The last year has been devastating for vulnerable and poorer communities around the world with a 24% increase in the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance.