Working with one community at a time

Tweet Sometimes you might feel powerless to help people suffering in poverty. The problems seem too big. Our perspective: We can’t change the whole world, but together, we can see One Village Transformed.

Join Jenny Simmons and World Concern as we transform lives, one village at a time. World Concern’s campaign matches you with a community for three years. With your support, we will work with the community to accomplish specific goals as they begin to see a better future emerge.

Lietnhom is a village in South Sudan, the world’s newest country, which celebrated its independence in July 2011. But 20 years of civil war took its toll on the people here. More than two million died. Four million were displaced from their homes. The war depleted livelihoods and left most of South Sudan without basic infrastructure and government services.

With you, World Concern will walk alongside families in Lietnhom, helping them build their lives and their community from the ground up. Together, we’ll focus on long-term solutions, so the people of Lietnhom can stand on their own.

Our priorities over these next three years will include:

1. Educating children and training adults in job skills
2. Improving farming to increase food security
3. Establishing a local economy through microfinance and village banking

For $33 a month for three years, you will make a powerful and significant investment in the lives of struggling families.
We cannot do this without you.

Why Jenny feels led to help South Sudan

“I’ve traveled all over the world and I’ve never seen poverty like this,” said singer Jenny Simmons while in South Sudan with World Concern. Jenny visited some of the world’s most remote, undeveloped villages on her trip.

“I had three different moms try to give me their babies. As a mother, you have to be in a pretty desperate place to do that,” she recalled. Jenny connected deeply with the families she met in South Sudan, and feels compelled to tell others about the incredible challenges they face.

“There’s no difference between these families and mine, except they live here. I was born in a place with food and water and clothes … and they weren’t,” she said. “You’d think there’s this huge gap between us, but there’s not. We’re all sons and daughters of God. We’re all created in his image.”

“There’s no reason a mother should try to give me her baby. I can’t change the whole world. And I can’t bring that baby home—as much as I wanted to—but I can partner with World Concern. I can set my eyes and my heart beyond myself,” says Jenny. “Sometimes we don’t know where to start. This is a good place.”

Join Jenny in transforming Lietnhom.

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For $33 a month, you will take part in an amazing transformation. We need partners like you to make it happen.

With your ongoing gift, you will receive a quarterly email update about how your gift is changing the lives of individual families.

Our promise to you is that you will see real and lasting impact as lives are saved and transformed.

Over 90% of every dollar—cash plus gifts-in-kind—go directly to programs that serve the poor, as we seek to transform lives long-term. We value stewardship and work hard to keep administrative costs low so more people can be helped.

Though its parent organization, CRISTA, World Concern is ranked as a Four Star Charity by Charity Navigator. In addition, we are held accountable through internal audits, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), as well as through the US government.