Concern Worldwide are supporting Will to Give Week 6th – 12th November 2017, raising awareness of the importance of making a Will and how you can leave a gift to charity or charities #changethefuture.
A gift in your Will could make a huge difference to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable families, families like Fishani’s, helping them build a future free from hunger.
Fishani (pictured right) lives with her family in Malawi. She started receiving help from Concern in 2012 as part of a Concern Project which helps increase the supply of food to families in some of the most vulnerable, rural areas, where erratic weather threatens crops and can result in food shortages.
Fishani received sweet potato vines, a treadle pump to water her crops and training in irrigation and modern farming methods. She also received nutrition training which taught her the importance of a varied diet and how improving her children’s nutrition with different vegetables will help them become healthier.
Fishani told us, “we pray that the people who support Concern don’t stop as they are helping so many people and reaching so many farmers”. Fishani now combines the sweet potatoes she has grown with maize and ground nuts to make a nutritious breakfast for her children, giving them all the energy they need for the day. Additionally she can invest the income from selling surplus sweet potatoes with Concern’s Village savings and Loans Programme and use this money to pay for school fees for her children.
This combination of support can be life-changing. Fishani now has enough food to feed her family and sell at the local market for an income for other household essentials. Her family now has a brighter future, free from hunger, all thanks to the generosity of people like you.
How a gift in your Will could help Concern Worldwide
- £150 could pay for 100g of seeds for six families in Ethiopia, enabling them to grow their own food
- £500 could provide eight malnourished children with a six week supply of high energy food in Malawi
- £1,000 could bring safe drinking water and sanitation to one school in Bangladesh
- £5,000 could provide cash grants for 20 people in Somalia, enabling them to start new businesses and become self-sufficient
- £15,000 could help 125 communities in Mozambique build new irrigation systems, helping people grow more crops to eat and sell
- £50,000 could provide 6,000 people, and their animals living in 12 communities in Ethiopia with a sustainable safe water supply.
Further information
Find out more here on how leaving a gift in your Will to Concern Worldwide could change the future.
