Concern has been fighting extreme poverty in Bangladesh since 1972.
More than 1.2m people, including members of the local community and those who fled to Cox’s Bazar before the events in Myanmar’s Rakhine State of August 2017, are in need of humanitarian assistance at the world’s biggest refugee camp.
Others set to pick up awards in New York this weekend are Brazilian Vanderlei Lima Santana for his work with Venezuelan refugees; Ace Robin from Indonesia, for her work in disaster relief; Ilge Karancak-Splane, for her work with Syrian refugee children in Turkey; Lucienne Heyworth for her work in developing an “education in emergencies” curriculum, focused on the Middle East; and Bernd Fischer for his work in the integration of refugee women to German society.
To find out more about Concern's work in Bangladesh, click on the button below.