Trusts and foundations

The Klaus and Gertrud Conrad Foundation is a German foundation, established in 2001, that exists to raise funds for people in need. Since its inception, the Klaus and Gertrud Conrad Foundation has donated over 6 million euros to support more than 2,000 regional, national and international aid projects. The Foundation’s main focus is currently on supporting refugee projects in Germany and a wide range of projects overseas, including those working on education.

The Conrad Foundation is a long-time supporter of Concern Worldwide’s education work in Somalia. The project the Foundation current funds works with students, teachers and communities in conflict-affected and vulnerable areas to improve children’s access to a quality education. Concern trains and equips teachers, and establishes community education committees to work alongside them in order to improve learning and address serious issues like sexual and gender-based violence. One of the key achievements of this project has been to increase girls’ participation in school by creating a safe and supportive environment for them to learn.

The McClay Foundation is a charitable Trust in Northern Ireland set up as a legacy to the late Sir Allen McClay, founder of the Almac Group.   The McClay Foundation has a vision to make a meaningful improvement and advancement in human health and a strategic focus to provide assistance and support to achieve long lasting and significant improvement in the health and wellbeing of those living in poverty and to increase capacity of all people and specifically those in the developing world to access the latest benefits in healthcare.

The McClay Foundation is currently supporting Concern Worldwide’s work on improving maternal, newborn and child health status in Illeret Ward, Marsabit County, Kenya.  The project will reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality in remote Illeret, Kenya by improving the availability of basic medical equipment, commodities and infrastructure as well as the recruitment and mentoring of health staff. 

Since its creation in 2015, the Evan Cornish Foundation strives for equality and justice for all by supporting the most marginalised and promoting human rights. The Foundation’s support is directed to work in the UK and overseas, under a select range of aims, which include Human Rights, Social and Economic Inequality, Education, Health, Criminal Justice System, Elderly People, Refugees and Asylum Seekers and Homelessness.

The Foundation currently supports Concern Worldwide’s nutrition work in some of the poorest areas of Burundi. Concern recruits and trains community volunteers to screen children for acute malnutrition, and refer severe cases to local health centres. Children with moderate acute malnutrition are treated within the community by volunteers known as Light Mothers (because they act as an example for others). Concern also supports the families of malnourished children to set up kitchen gardens, giving them a sustainable source of diverse and nutritious food.