Concern Worldwide

The seventh annual Women of Concern event has come to a close 🎉 This event is a global movement supporting and building awareness of Concern's work in 26 of the world’s poorest countries. It explores the impact of supporting our drive towards global gender equality, and looks at how we are reducing inequalities faced by communities in extreme poverty. We are so grateful to all of supporters - particularly our MC Fionnuala Moran, our honouree Berabose Aline Joyce and, our sponsor, EY. For more information about our gender equality work, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dX-yVWjh #WOC25 #WomenofConcern

"When we talk about women in poverty and gender equality, we talk about the women doing the work but women’s rights are for everyone. That is all of our responsibilities." These are the inspiring words of our Women of Concern 2025 honouree Berabose Aline Joyce. She is the co-founder and CEO of LUNA, a platform revolutionising women’s access to health and wellness across Africa. Luna provides telehealth and digital services to women, enabling them to get the information and health products that they need from identified trusted service providers. It enables women to anonymously engage with other women and experts on key topics such as mental health, sexual and menstrual health, and antenatal and postnatal care. Berabose and her family have a close connection to Concern. She was born in Democratic Republic of Congo to a mother who had fled the genocide in Rwanda. Berabose and her mother, Marie Ange, received treatment for malnutrition at a refugee camp in DRC that Concern was supporting. Speaking at the Women of Concern ceremony today, she said: "I always say to women and girls, that I know all the ways that we have been abandoned but I don’t want to only celebrate the struggles women face. "I also like to appreciate that women continue to pour love, care and passion into their families and communities so that we can carry that forward and keep being the wonderful, fantastic people that we are." #WOC25 #WomenofConcern Photo: Leon Farrell

"It is at times when our principles and values are most challenged that we must fight hardest to protect them." Concern's CEO Dominic Crowley spoke passionately about the importance of tackling gender inequality in our bid to fight extreme poverty at Women of Concern event this afternoon. Women right's activist Berabose Aline Joyce is the honouree at the event today. Berabose is the founder of LUNA, a women's health platform expanding access to reproductive health across Africa, and the creator of The Circle, a healing and wellness space supporting Rwanda’s post-genocide generation through safe spaces, dialogue, and mental health services. The event is taking place at the Round Room in the Mansion House, Dublin and is kindly sponsored again by EY. #WOC25 #WomenofConcern

We are delighted to welcome the attendees of today's #WomenOfConcern seventh annual awards luncheon to The Round Room at Dublin's Mansion House, sponsored by EY! Gender equality is at the heart of all of Concern's programmes, and today, we will highlight the incredible women we work with in 26 countries across the world. Stay tuned for updates! #WoC24 #WomenOfConcern

🏆 We are looking forward to welcoming our supporters to Women of Concern this afternoon. We will honour inspirational Berabose Aline Joyce, an impact entrepreneur and women’s rights advocate working at the intersection of health, healing, and community in Rwanda. The event, which is kindly sponsored again by EY, will take place at the Round Room in the Mansion House in Dublin. #WOC25 #WomenofConcern

We are proud to highlight the Agricultural Livelihoods Improving Value Chains and the Environment (ALIVE) Programme, Concern's four-year partnership with Kerry. This initiative aims to increase food security in Tana River, Kenya and improve the incomes of participating farmers and their families. Some of the key achievements so far include:  - Health screenings delivered to 23,000 children - 21 organisations trained in Cooperatives management practices - 34,600 kg of climate-resilient seeds distributed - 33% increase in the selling price of farmers’ mangoes #WorldFoodDay2025

The world produces enough food to feed all 8 billion people on the planet. And yet, 673 million people go hungry every day. Protracted conflict blocks access to food and interrupts vital trade lines, and the impacts of the climate crisis are destroying livelihoods, crops and food systems. Ending hunger is only going to be truly possible with international cooperation and teamwork, as well as strong communities at the local level. Today is #WorldFoodDay, a day for raising awareness of global hunger and calling for action. This year’s theme is “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future” - a call for global collaboration in creating a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, and food-secure future. This is a key part of Concern’s mission. We work towards #ZeroHunger and the building of food security by supporting vulnerable communities around the world: 🎣 Like in Chad, where we work with communities to build financial and climate resilience and foster a diversity in diets through constructing fish markets. 🌾 Like in Sierra Leone, where we are building food and nutrition security through equitable and climate-smart food systems. 🌽 Like in Bangladesh, where we support low-income families to improve their diets and grow a wider range of nutritious fruits and vegetables in their yards. This World Food Day, and every other day of the year, ending hunger is our Concern. Read more about our work and World Food Day here: https://bit.ly/4oiFrgO #ItsOurConcern #food #foodsecurity

Two years after the worst of the flooding, much of Unity State, South Sudan, remains underwater. The floods washed away homes and farmland, and dead trees break the surface of the standing water - an eerie reminder of what used to be. The residents of Unity State have now become climate refugees, displaced from their homes by these devastating floods. With crops destroyed and livestock gone, hunger has become an everyday reality. Many families are now reduced to surviving by harvesting waterlilies from the floodwater. Directed by Jon Hozier-Byrne, the latest installment of Concern Documentaries, The Underwater State: Surviving on Waterlilies in South Sudan, explores the human cost of the climate crisis. Watch the full documentary on Concern's YouTube channel, and like and subscribe for more insights into the world around us. https://lnkd.in/eaGmB_sS #SouthSudan #ConcernDocumentaries #climatechange #flooding #floods #documentary #youtube

A key part of our result is to support communities who have been impacted by climate disasters and help to build their resilience against future hazards. Since 2021, Concern Worldwide has been working with communities in Nsanje District, Malawi, an area that is highly vulnerable to floods and food shortages. At a community level, Concern has facilitated the implementation of action plans, incorporating nature-based solutions, early warning systems, flood-resilient housing, and climate-adaptive livelihood initiatives. “We learned about Disaster Risk Management, Early Warning Systems, search and rescue, and first aid, among other skills. We’ve already started using what we learned. For instance, during Cyclone Freddy, our committees were on the frontline helping affected people, rescuing and searching for them, and finding evacuation centers,” explains local committee member Stanley Magalasi. Concern is a proud member of the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, which impacted 3.14 million people between 2018 and 2024. Find out more here 👉 https://bit.ly/3VMfN81 Photo: Saikat Mojumder/Concern Worldwide

Communities around the world are suffering devasting - sometimes even fatal - consequences from climate disasters, that's why reducing risk is a key part of our work. Previously in Kenya, disaster-related budget allocations were not specific and could be drawn to respond to any form of disaster, meaning that there was often little, or no money left over following flood disasters. Through community advocacy work in Tana River County, Concern Worldwide influenced the Tana River County government to increase its budget allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction from 2% to 10%. During the 2023 floods in Tana River County, these allocated funds supported better preparedness, response and community recovery. Pictured is Fatuma Wario, with a newly constructed bridge in Handaraku village in Kenya. She said was born and raised in Handaraku. This bridge has been welcomed as a symbol of progress and safety as the old one was makeshift and there were dangers of falling into crocodile-infested waters or farms being flooded previously. Read more about Concern's work with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance here: https://lnkd.in/da-eXviE