• Concern America field team members have created an incredible website of technical resources for appropriate technology projects, free for use by all: www.itacanet.org.
• Long-term Concern America field team member Oliver Style wrote and published, in Spanish, a comprehensive solar energy installation book. Royalties support Concern America's work!
• 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.
Join Concern America for the 2013 John O'Donohue Integrity Award
Honoring Mike Farrell and Rev. Christopher Smith (May 18, 2013, Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA)
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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.
• Concern America's 2013 Walk Out of Poverty walk-a-thon, held on March 23, was a huge success, raising more than $70,000! Thank you to the more than 750 participants who made this our largest Walk ever! Click here for photos of the Walk.
A special thanks to the following major sponsors:
- Srs. of St. Joseph of Orange
- Srs. of St. Joseph of Carondelet