• 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.
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.
• Join us for an open house craft sale at the Concern America office in Santa Ana on Friday, November 22, 3:00-8:00pm, with a special presentation on the Spoonmakers of Guatemala at 7:00pm.
• Don't miss the annual gathering on Saturday, December 14, 3-8pm. The theme this year is "Time and Place as Grace and Blessing." RSVP here.
• Save the date: Concern America's 17th Annual Walk Out of Poverty will be on Saturday, April 12, 2014.
OPPORTUNITIES
• Get monthly updates on the work of Concern America through our new "Beats from a Global Heart" e-newsletter!
