Concern America

Concern America is a unique nonprofit, nonsectarian, nongovernmental development and refugee aid organization - unique in that its philosophy emphasizes the transference of skills and thus the creation of opportunity (seen as a more permanent solution), not just the placement of resources into impoverished regions. Concern America does this by training community members in health, environmental health, education, appropriate technology (e.g. potable water systems), and income-generation, so that the villagers themselves become the health care providers, educators, well-diggers, cooperative members, etc. Eventually, the Concern America team can be withdrawn, leaving in place trained local people who are "capacitated" to continue the work and to bring it to neighboring communities.