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NEWS

• Concern America's Innovative Primary Health Care Model was selected as a semi-finalist for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge a second year in a row ! Read the Press Release and visit the Buckminster Fuller Challenge site to read about Concern America's submission. Finalists will be announced in May.

• You can now follow Concern America on Facebook!

• Read Concern America's recent Newsletters

• Congratulations Concern America for being recognized as one of the "Best in America."Best

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DOWNLOADS

• Concern America's most recent Annual Report
• Concern America's Board of Directors
• Concern America Staff members
Mission/Vision Statement of Concern America

 

 

Concern America is Celebrating 40 Years of
"Gathering Goodness and Harvesting Hope"!

Gather Goodness, Harvest Hope

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New! Purchase Concern America Crafts Online!

~Purchase Conscientiously~

~Spread Justice~

~Ease Situations of Poverty~

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Concern America is an international development and refugee aid organization that provides long-term, community-based development and support to economically impoverished communities throughout the world.  What distinguishes the work of Concern America is its belief that the transformation of impoverished communities comes from engaging local members in the solutions to their problems.  Concern America does this by training community members in health, education, construction, and income-generation, so that the villagers themselves become the health care providers, educators, well-diggers, cooperative members, etc. 

Since its establishment in 1972, Concern America has worked in fifteen countries on three continents, making a measurable difference in the lives of more than two million people in thousands of communities.  In this country, Concern America infuses a global perspective into social justice education, health, and fair-trade programs.  Concern America is based in Santa Ana, California.

EVENTS

• Concern America will be selling its fairly traded crafts at the Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts Festival on Saturday, May 27 in downtown Santa Ana, CA. Join us!

• Concern America's 15th Annual Walk Out of Poverty was a great success! On Saturday, March 31, 2012, a total of 675 gathered to make this Concern America's biggest Walk ever, raising over $63,000 to date! Click here for photos of the wonderful event.

• Mark your calendars for Concern America's next Training for Transformation Seminar, August 16-18, 2012.

OPPORTUNITIES

Learn about the successful Concern America trained village Health Promoter Practitioner model:
• Read about the Health Promoter Practitioner model with stories from the field
• Read Concern America's submission to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge
• Read Concern America newsletters, filled with stories from the field

• Concern America is currently seeking a Health Professional to serve as a field volunteer in Colombia

• Click here for information about volunteering with Concern America

• Travel to Guatemala with Concern America's International Health Immersion Program. The next trip will be May 28-June 19, 2012.

• Are you looking for service learning/service hours? Consider participating in Concern America's Walk Out of Poverty

VIDEOS

- About Concern America
- Concern America Training Health Promoter Practitioners
- Concern America Helping to Provide Access to Water in Latin America
- Concern America's Work with Indigenous Weavers of Guatemala
- Life in the Petén, Guatemala: From the Perspective of a Young U.S. Teenager



CONCERN AMERICA DONOR POLICY
• Click on the following link for Concern America's Donor Policy