About Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is a non-governmental, international humanitarian organisation dedicated to reducing suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the 28 of the world's poorest countries. Concern's programs in livelihoods, education, health, HIV and AIDS, and emergency relief target the root causes of poverty. Concern is committed to reaching the most vulnerable, even in the most difficult of circumstances. In the past year, Concern reached over 9.8 million people.

Concern has been working in Kenya since 2002, working in the poorest communities in both urban and rural areas. Concern Kenya's programs in education, HIV and AIDS, livelihoods, health, and nutrition are implemented in partnership with people in rural and urban communities and 37 local partners. The Concern team also provides rapid, lifesaving humanitarian aid in emergencies as they arise.

In the slums of Nairobi, Concern works with the poorest of the poor, developing practical and lasting solutions to poverty through the following programs.

Concern Worldwide, founded in 1968, is a non-governmental, international humanitarian organisation dedicated to reducing suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the 28 of the world's poorest countries. Concern's programs in livelihoods, education, health, HIV and AIDS, and emergency relief target the root causes of poverty. Concern is committed to reaching the most vulnerable, even in the most difficult of circumstances. In the past year, Concern reached over 9.8 million people.

EDUCATION- SECURING ACCESS TO EDUCATION FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE SLUM CHILDREN

In Nairobi's slums, there are only a handful of formal, government-funded primary schools, yet there are hundreds of thousands of children residing in these communities. Although the government of Kenya declared "free primary education for all" in 2003, children who live in Nairobi's massive, overcrowded slums have been denied their basic human right to education.

• Concern worked with local partners to demand free, quality primary education for children living in Nairobi's slums and successfully petitioned the government of Kenya to fund non-formal primary schools in the slums.
• In non-formal schools for the most vulnerable slum children - including orphans and working children - Concern trains teachers and provides schools with books, desks, blackboards, and other learning materials and also supports the hiring of social workers to identify the issues that keep slum children out of school. To learn more about Concern's work to improve children's access to primary education in Nairobi's slums.

Please watch a Hard Lessons: Learning in very unforgiving conditions - A documentary on YouTube.com

HIV AND AIDS - IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN

Concern's HIV and AIDS program improves the capacity of local partners to provide peer education and counseling for primary school children in 24 schools. The program helps children by:

• Reducing stigma and discrimination directed at vulnerable children affected by HIV and AIDS
• Reducing risky sexual behavior that puts vulnerable children at risk of HIV infection
• Strengthening a protective environment for children affected by HIV and AIDS in Kenya
• Improving the treatment of HIV positive children who are severely malnourished

LIVELIHOODS - HELPING PEOPLE OVERCOME EXTREME POVERTY BY INVESTING IN THEIR ABILITY TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES

• Concern provides a safety net to the poorest, most vulnerable households with direct food support as well as emergency cash transfers using mobile phone technology.

HEALTH - PROVIDING LIFESAVING TREATMENT OF SEVERE MALNUTRITION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND INFANTS

• The programme is addressing rising levels of acute malnutrition in seven urban slums in Nairobi and Kisumu targeting 10,000 mothers and over 1,700 severely malnourished children.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CONCERN WORLDWIDE

Please visit www.concern.net or email Concern at info@concern.net

Concern Worldwide
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Dublin 2
Republic of Ireland

Tel: (00 353) 1 417 77 00

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