Concern Worldwide

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

Let’s share a good news story to start the weekend! Hageya Konkona is a farmer who has enough food to provide her family with a nutritious diet, whose business is thriving and and who is investing in her children’s education. Hageya, 37, is from Tana Delta in Kenya. Although things are going well for her now, she explains that getting by has been a struggle at times. Tana Delta is commonly hit by floods and droughts, destroying homes, livestock and crops, leaving residents at risk of poverty. Hageya had to leave school early for financial reasons. She turned to milking cows but struggled to break into the small local market and make enough money to support her family. She also started planting crops but faced issues with pests and the climate. Things turned around when Hageya was selected for a Concern programme, which receives funding from Kerry to promote sustainable nutrition, health and economic development. Participants are learning new techniques to help their farms flourish. Hageya was able to grow watermelon and green grams - a type of mung bean - on her farm, her bounty has significantly improved, and now she is sharing her knowledge with other women. Hayega spoke about the difference this has made to her family’s lives already, saying: “Apart from having enough food for my household, I am guaranteed some money from the sale of the watermelon. I intend to buy more supplies to expand my farm and also to save a little for school fees for my children.” We are lucky to work with incredible women around the globe, and we are excited to celebrate them at the seventh annual Women of Concern awards on October 17. The event, which is sponsored by EY, will be held at The Round Room at the Mansion House, Dublin. Photo: Cheruiyot Kones / Concern Worldwide #WomenofConcern25 #genderequality

Concern Worldwide welcomes the ceasefire confirmed as part of the Gaza peace deal and urges all parties to the deal to seize the opportunity this presents to ensure full-scale, sustained and unhindered humanitarian access commences immediately. The top priority must be to ensure there is unhindered land access for the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to resume full-scale food, medicines and the distribution of essential supplies. All barriers preventing the safe delivery of principled humanitarian aid must be removed. Humanitarian workers must be protected and assisted in their work. International humanitarian law must be respected. More than two years of conflict have resulted in widespread suffering, and famine has been confirmed by the IPC in Gaza. Although the ceasefire will halt hostilities, civilians continue to face impossible choices when trying to secure their own survival. A major humanitarian response is urgently required if lives are to be saved. Without swift, decisive and sustained action, there will be more deaths, and people will be denied the chance of recovery. Concern Worldwide is ready and willing to ramp up our response alongside our partner in Gaza, CESVI. 

Concern welcomes the ceasefire confirmed as part of the Gaza peace deal and urges all parties to the deal to seize the opportunity this presents to ensure full-scale, sustained and unhindered humanitarian access commences immediately. “The top priority must be to ensure there is unhindered land access for the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to resume full-scale food, medicines and essential supply distribution,” Concern CEO Dominic Crowley said. “All barriers preventing the safe delivery of principled humanitarian aid must be removed. Humanitarian workers must be protected and assisted in their work. International humanitarian law must be respected. "A major humanitarian response is urgently required if lives are to be saved. Without swift, decisive and sustained action, there will be more deaths, and people will be denied the chance of recovery. Concern Worldwide is ready and willing to ramp up its response. “The ceasefire and wider implementation of all stages of the proposed peace agreement must be realised. As of today, access for the delivery of vital food and medical assistance must be provided." More than two years of conflict have resulted in widespread suffering, with famine confirmed by the IPC to be occurring in Gaza. Although the ceasefire will halt hostilities, civilians continue to face impossible choices when trying to secure their own survival. Concern is currently working through its partner in Gaza, CESVI, to truck clean water for drinking and cooking to displaced communities in 10 locations in Khan Younis, Deir al Balah and Gaza City. So far, we have reached over 100,000 people, with deliveries taking place daily.

Today, with our Alliance2015 partner Welthungerhilfe (WHH), Concern Worldwide launches the 20th edition of the Global Hunger Index, a report determining hunger levels around the world and reflecting on two decades of progress in addressing hunger. Worryingly, in many cases, it reflects a halt in progress.    The report shows that in seven countries - Somalia, Haiti, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Yemen and Burundi – the levels of hunger are ‘alarming’, with Somalia experiencing the highest levels of hunger in the world. In another 35 countries, hunger is designated as ‘serious’. However, data gaps in several critical contexts including the occupied Palestinian territories, Burundi, Sudan, DPR Korea and Yemen, prevent the calculation of full 2025 GHI scores and obscure the true extent of hunger.    Conflict remains the biggest driver of hunger, with armed violence fuelling 20 food crises that, collectively, are affecting nearly 140 million people. The impacts of climate change are making the global hunger situation worse.   In this year’s GHI, marking 20 years of the report, policymakers give their insights on the progress that we have made, and the challenges ahead amidst complex insecurity and cuts in humanitarian assistance.    It is clear that, as a global community, we must renew our commitment to Zero Hunger, and build resilient food systems, strengthen national level political commitment, and break the cycle of conflict and hunger to avoid needless suffering in the world’s most vulnerable countries. https://lnkd.in/gFjb_YCp

Today, with our Alliance2015 partners Welthungerhilfe (WHH), Concern launches the 20th edition of the Global Hunger Index, which looks at the state of hunger in the world today, and reflects on the past two decades. For the second year in a row, Somalia has the highest levels of hunger globally, with 4.6 million people experiencing crisis levels of food insecurity. Another six countries - Haiti, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Yemen and Burundi - are experiencing alarming levels of hunger, and in another 35 countries, hunger is designated as serious. However, data gaps in several critical contexts like the occupied Palestinian territories, Sudan, and Yemen, prevent the calculation of full 2025 GHI scores, and obscure the true extent of hunger. Worryingly, progress to eradicate hunger has stalled, due to a combination of conflict and armed violence driving food crises, and the impacts of climate change destroying food systems. At the current pace, Zero Hunger at the global level may not be reached until 2137 — more than a century away. The statistics are bleak, but that doesn’t mean we can give up. We can reduce global hunger - progress between 2000 and 2016 proved that. It’s time to recommit and renew global action. We must: ✅ Build Resilient Food Systems ✅ Strengthen National-Level Political Commitment and Prioritise Localised Implementation ✅ And Break the Cycle of Conflict and Hunger Read more about the Global Hunger Index 2025: https://bit.ly/3IMonAN #GHI2025 #globalhungerindex