Concern at 55
This year, Concern celebrates 55 years of tackling extreme poverty all over the world.
This year, we mark with great pride Concern Worldwide’s 55th Anniversary. Our work started with one emergency response in one country 55 years ago, and it continues today with multiple responses to increasingly complex and compounding emergencies throughout the world.
Concern Worldwide’s 55th Anniversary is a celebration of our consistent, steadfast commitment to working with the world’s most vulnerable communities to transform their lives and a sobering reminder of how much work remains before us. It is a moment that challenges us to renew this commitment as conflict, climate change, and hunger threaten to reverse decades of progress toward ending extreme poverty.
Timeline
Timeline: 55 Years of Concern in action
Since 1968, Concern Worldwide has been dedicated to eliminating extreme poverty. Many of the faces have changed and the methodologies have evolved, but our commitment remains as strong as ever. Here are some milestones from along the way.
55 Years
Who We Are
We are a global community working to end extreme poverty with sustainable, community-driven programs.
As we celebrate this milestone, we’re not pausing for a moment because we are needed now more than ever. Conflict, climate change, and hunger continue to perpetuate a cycle of extreme poverty that devastates lives worldwide, and we continue to respond. We maintain deep roots from our earliest days in effective emergency response while working to achieve lasting change through long-term development programs.
These are just a few of the recent chapters in our story…
2022
Conflict in Ukraine
In the biggest mass movement of people in Europe since WWII, huge numbers of people desperately flee the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine. Concern sets up inside the country to cater for the displaced.
2022
Flooding in Pakistan
Concern Worldwide is continuing to help Pakistan with its response after an area several times the size of Ireland was left submerged following weeks of extreme monsoon rainfall in the summer.
2022
Drought in the Horn of Africa
Five consecutive failed rainy seasons drive pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia to the brink of famine. Concern at the forefront of efforts to avert a humanitarian disaster.
