You can sponsor a friend here, if you have their Faster Number.

Or, donate directly to Concern here.

Fasters, return the money you've collected through sponsorship.

Fast Friends 2006 raised over £100,000, all of which is now hard at work in the developing world. But the need remains.

• A child dies every 5 seconds from preventable hunger related causes.
• 840 million people live with continuous hunger
• 9 million people die of hunger related causes each year.

Read more about the work Concern does in 30 of the world’s poorest countries.

If you think you have to give huge amounts of money to make a difference, think again!

£1 could buy a fruit tree sapling in Malawi which grows fruit every year and also prevents soil erosion.

£5 could help buy seven local push hoes to enable seven farmers to cultivate a lot more land each in south Sudan.

£15 could help construct one improved bee hive to increase honey production and income for beekeepers in Tanzania.

£25 could help buy maize seed, one of the most energy-giving cereal crops there is, providing income and food for farmers in Mozambique.

£50 could buy two goats to help a farmer rebuild a herd destroyed by drought. As well as providing food and milk, a goat provides natural fertilizer for the soil.

£75 could help set up a ‘rice bank' providing security to five families in remote villages in Laos in times of food shortages

£100 could help to train villagers in farming skills, to help increase their yield.

£150 could help buy a buffalo that can plough the land more quickly and efficiently.

£500 could help pay towards irrigating one farm, turning dusty soil into productive land.

£1,500 could hire of a bulldozer to reinforce a village's flood defenses in Somalia, protecting homes, animals and crops