Carrick firm’s £5,000 support for Concern’s Ration Challenge.

A Carrickfergus manufacturing company is supporting a humanitarian aid organisation’s work with refugees.

Yelo matched donations to Concern Worldwide up to a total of £5,000 for one day as an incentive to people taking part in the charity’s Ration Challenge.

Richard Furey, managing director and David Sinclair, director, Yelo, with Dawn Weir, Concern Worldwide NI fundraising partnerships manager, outside the company’s premises in Carrickfergus.

placeholder image — Richard Furey, managing director and David Sinclair, director, Yelo, with Dawn Weir, Concern Worldwide NI fundraising partnerships manager, outside the company’s premises in Carrickfergus.

The challenge encourages people across the UK to eat the same rations as a Syrian refugee living in a camp in Jordan, for seven days – just a small amount of rice, beans, flour, lentils, chickpeas, fish and oil.

So far, the Ration Challenge has raised £1.17 million this year thanks to the support of Yelo, other matched funding partners and the participation of almost 4,400 people across the UK.

The money raised will help provide emergency food, hygiene kits and life-saving support to refugees and displaced people in countries affected by conflict and disaster.

The award-winning Yelo makes and sells test equipment around the world (read more here).

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