Concern America

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Concern America

• To serve others to give what we have is not
  enough unless we always show the utmost respect
  for each other and all we meet
  --Dorothy Day

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HistoryConcern America was founded in
Stockton, CA in 1972 as an offshoot of an
organization, Concern, located in Ireland. The
founders were Fr. Michael Doheny, Sean OFarrell,
Paul Fairbrook, Raymond Kennedy.
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Objective
To provide training, technical assistance and/or
material support to people in lesser-developed
countries who require assistance as a result of
natural disaster, civil disruption, forced
migration, discrimination or historically-rooted
poverty. The primary emphasis is to encourage
self reliance through programs in public health,
nutrition, sanitation, and economic and
agricultural development.

--From the
By-Laws of Concern America
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Development Abroad
An International Development Refugee Aid
Organization.

• Education
• Health
• Appropriate Technology
• Income-Generation

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at Home

• Justice Education
• Fair Trade

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Education
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Education

• In most rural communities where Concern America
  works there is great interest in literacy
  programs. People everywhere want to learn to
  read and write and to acquire basic skills in
  mathematics.

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Health
The health promoters are life-savers and
spirit-savers. They can diagnose and treat the
vast majority of the infectious, chronic or
endemic diseases of their villages and can
initiate and motivate programs to prevent them.
In the best of cases they can fight the system
and get a patient with a serious injury or
illness into the hospital system. They are a
hope for their village and for our world.
Because of that very reason health promoters can
be targets of those who want to see society
controlled in ways that dont promote the common
good. And, of course, this is why we support
them and safeguard them.  Curt Wands, PA
(2004)
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Health

• Concern America concentrates on sending health
  professionals to train local people, often
  selected by their community, to become health
  promoters. Health promoters are trained to
  provide community-based, appropriate primary and
  preventative health care.

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Appropriate Technology
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Appropriate Technology

• Appropriate technology reduces the amount of
  hard work and long hours of manual labor needed
  for life-sustaining tasks.

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Income-Generation
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Income-Generation

• Community members are organized into
  co-operatives to manufacture products or provide
  services, which are marketable and
  income-producing.

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Training for Transformation
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Developing a Heart that Yearns for Justice

• Teaches leaders about the excitement and
  satisfaction that comes with incorporating
  principles of global justice into the
  decision-making process
• To facilitate the development of creative,
  genuine, and active responses to perceived
  injustices

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Funding

• Concern America is a nonprofit organization.
  Funding comes primarily from individual donors.
  Concern America is nonsectarian and neither seeks
  nor accepts funds from government agencies.

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How You Can Support Concern America

• Setting the Table
• Adopt-A-Volunteer
• Fair Trade Coffee
• Crafts
• Annual Walk-A-Thon
• Church Speakers

making room for a guest at our table
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Contact Information2015 N. BroadwayPO Box
1790 Santa Ana, CA 92702(800)
CONCERN714-953-8575E-mail concamerinc_at_earthlin
k.net