Project Sponsorship

Our development work addresses the multi-dimensions of poverty and is tailored to the needs of the people we support. We want the way you support Concern to be as tailored to you as Concern’s projects are to our beneficiaries around the world.

Supporters able to give a minimum gift of £10,000 are more than donors, they are investors in people and in development. By donating a transformational gift like this, you will help make a significant impact on people’s lives and bring about sustainable and lasting change.

We have a large portfolio of projects that need funding and our major gifts team will work with you, to find the right opportunity for you.

Contact our team to discuss your requirements, they will be happy to provide details on the areas of our work that match your interests.

Once our team have all the information they need, they will come back to you with several proposals for you to choose between. 

Our major gifts team can offer you a bespoke package depending on your needs and requirements.  Among other things we can provide:

East Africa is experiencing one of its worst droughts in over 40 years.  Most people in the region are reliant on the land and their animals to survive. This drought is destroying their livelihoods. Millions of people are leaving their homes and villages to find food, water and pasture. In the most desperate situations, families are selling their livestock to afford food for their children. 

Mum-of-nine Celina Ngisuru Adapal lives in Lokapelpus village, Turkana.  She is part of an agro-pastoralist community, who have relied on their livestock for generations.  Celina tells us “I used to have 100 goats and 50 sheep.  But now I am left with only three goats.  I lost them to drought.  They died because they had nothing to eat.  No vegetation, nothing.  There was nowhere to take them to. Other places were dry.” 

Celina is bringing up her children on her own after her husband died and while she had her livestock, she had enough income to care for her family.

Concern has started to run an agri-nutrition programme in the area.  We have created a village kitchen garden made up of two large, enclosed farm plots and trained Celina and around 80 other women from the village and surrounding area to cultivate the plot.  As well as training, the group have received seeds, tools (spades, hoes and machetes) to grow and harvest vegetables and fruit, such as; watermelon, cowpeas, amaranth and mung beans. 

The idea is to help families improve their nutrition by having access to fresh fruit and vegetables and diversify their livelihoods by selling any surplus produce.  Although Celina and her neighbours have only been growing the crops for just over a month, they are already benefitting from the initiative, she tells us “It was a good thing to be trained on how to farm.  Now we are busy tilling the land.  We have not harvested much yet, this will be our first.  For us, it is important, because we will soon have more food to eat and sell” Celina continues “We are happy with the farm garden, because it has made a difference.”