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The International Childcare Trust, also known as ICT, is an independent, non-governmental organisation; a children’s charity that exists for the purpose of relieving poverty, relieving sickness and advancing the education of children and young persons anywhere in the world who are in a condition of need, hardship or distress. The organisation aims to achieve these objectives by designing, implementing and managing projects in conjunction with local people according to their needs and within the culture of the country of operation. Projects are managed and staffed by local people.〔(ICT UK )〕 ==Background== For over 30 years, the International Childcare Trust has provided funding and advice to children’s projects in both Asia and Africa. Up until 8 years ago the charity facilitated its work through branch offices in the countries where it works. David Lamont, the founder of The International Childcare Trust, was a true egalitarian and in those early days ICT worked on a cooperative basis; everyone involved had equality of input. The organisation, based in a tiny bedroom in Dave's flat in Covent Garden raised funds to support projects in Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, India, Zambia and Kenya. David believed that people who were actively involved both in fundraising and fieldwork and who had strong links with local communities would have the best insight into needs and the drive to make things work. Those early partners; Pat Patebandagai and Joe in Sri Lanka, Phillip Wedell in Zambia and N. Sethu, Steve and Christine King in Tamil Nadu, lived on local wages and David was totally unpaid, between them they made the future ICT a possibility. In recent years, it has carried out projects through local partner organisations within those countries, such as the Vilpatti Village Project in India.〔 The charity supports programmes that give deprived children the essentials they need to live their lives. It concentrates on providing the following: * shelter * primary health care * education 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Childcare Trust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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