Every program that Concern implements is designed to be not only gender sensitive, but gender transformative.
- 736 million women and girls -- 1 in 3 -- experience a form of gender-based violence.
- 25 percent of girls around the world are married before their 18th birthday.
- 99.5 years until we reach global gender equality, if we move at our current rate of progress.
- 129 million girls around the world are missing out on the basic right of an education.
A History of Our Work
Our Impact
- 300 women in Afghanistan trained on growing home/kitchen gardens.
- 123,000 girls in Kenya reached with program designed to improve matriculation rates.
- 180 percent increase in gender equality at home via Husband Schools program in Niger.
- 80,000 Sudanese mothers and their children received nutritional support.
And that’s just in one year.
For every dollar donated to Concern, $0.93 goes directly into our life-saving programs in around the world. Your tax-deductible gift makes you part of a vital community that enables us to reach millions of women and girls each year.