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          Two year old Nambana Estella at the Concern-supported health centre in Boyali, Central African Republic. Photo: Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide.Two year old Nambana Estella at the Concern-supported health centre in Boyali, Central African Republic. Photo: Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide.Two year old Nambana Estella at the Concern-supported health centre in Boyali, Central African Republic. Photo: Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide.

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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

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          Ismat Ara* (42) visits a Concern nutrition centre with her malnourished child Ashmita* (9 months)
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          16 June 2025

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          Ismat Ara* (42) visits a Concern nutrition centre with her malnourished child Ashmita* (9 months)
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          Raising children in a refugee camp

          Ismat Ara, a 42-year-old mother of two daughters, resides with her family in a refugee camp after fleeing Myanmar. This is her story.
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          The global refugee crisis, explained

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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 release
          9 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
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          9 June 2025

          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
          28 May 2025

          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
          27 May 2025

          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
          19 May 2025

          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.
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