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19 Facts About Concern Worldwide

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Concern Worldwide aims to help those living in the world's poorest countries.

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Concern Worldwide is engaged in long-term development work, in addition to emergency relief in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

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Concern Worldwide is one of fourteen fully certified members of Humanitarian Accountability Partnership.

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Concern Worldwide UK is a UK charity that supports the overseas work of Concern Worldwide.

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5.

Concern Worldwide was set up by a small group of people including John and Kay O'Loughlin Kennedy in their home in Dublin in 1968, following an appeal for aid by missionaries for the starving population of war-torn Biafra.

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Also involved in the creation of Concern Worldwide were Spiritans Ray Kennedy, Aengus Finucane and Jack Finucane.

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Concern Worldwide's work is centered on five main programmes: Education, Emergencies, Health and Nutrition, Gender Equality and Livelihoods.

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Concern Worldwide launched an appeal to tackle the drought in East Africa in June 2011.

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Concern Worldwide is controlled and regulated by its members who have responsibility for the Articles of Association, election of the council, appointment of the auditors and approval of accounts.

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Concern Worldwide is the first Irish charity to receive certification from the Geneva-based organisation Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, which works to make humanitarian work more accountable and transparent through self-regulation, compliance verification, and quality assurance certification.

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Concern Worldwide is a member of the Irish Charities and Tax Research Reform Group.

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Concern Worldwide raises money from individuals, communities, sponsored events and companies as well as receiving financial support from the Irish government, the European Union, the United Nations, the British government and other government agencies, private donors, and major trusts.

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Campaigns and initiatives run by the organisation include the Concern Worldwide Fast, which is a sponsored 24-hour fast and programme of events to raise money to fight child malnutrition.

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Since 2008 Concern Worldwide has run a creative writing competition in a number of age categories.

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15.

Concern Worldwide encouraged people to donate to Concern while to charity responded to Cyclone Idai.

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Dublin footballer Michael Darragh Macauley is an ambassador for Concern Worldwide and has visited their programmes in Kenya and Iraq.

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Concern Worldwide has visited programmes in Kenya and has hosted Concern's annual Winter Ball in New York.

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Concern Worldwide visited Ethiopia to visit Concern's emergency nutrition programme in Ebinat, a 12-hour drive from Addis Ababa.

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19.

Concern Worldwide is referenced in the 1990 The Saw Doctors song "I Useta Love Her".

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