World Concern

World Concern is a Christian global relief and development organization operating in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Haiti, with its headquarters located in Seattle, Washington, United States.

The organization was renamed World Concern in 1976 after expanding work to include emergency relief in response to famines, hurricanes and earthquakes.

Programs include disaster response,[3] health services, education and vocational training, food security and water, child protection and microcredit.

In Chad, for example, World Concern works in camps for refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan and internally displaced Chadians.

In partnership with organizations such as USAID, World Concern implements a "Cash for Work" program that employs people living in the camp to perform labor, such as building rock bunds to reduce erosion.

World Concern's programs seek to implement sustainable ways to lift people out of poverty, with a goal of enabling members of the communities in which they work to support themselves.