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PCI (Project Concern International), (Project Concern), a non-profit, humanitarian NGO based in San Diego, California, is dedicated to preventing disease, improving community health, and promoting sustainable development. PCI reaches nearly 6 million people a year through programs in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Financial Information )〕 ==History== In 1961, a young doctor from San Diego, James Wesley Turpin, had an ambition to live a meaningful life of helping people and learned of a clinic in Tijuana that needed help and there he saved the lives of two small children who were dying of pneumonia. This experience led Turpin to found Project Concern when he realized it took more than one caring doctor in one place. From there he learned of the challenges in Hong Kong and from there he learned of the challenges in Vietnam. He published two books detailing and expanding the commentary on the work.〔 * * 〕 Along the way he was assisted in fundraising for the project〔 * * * * * 〕 and other doctors working in the clinics.〔〔 Project Concern began to provide services in more and more places - Hong Kong, Vietnam, Appalachia, Navajo lands - with an internationally diverse personnel. And Turpin's work would come to be recognized in later years.〔 * * 〕 In 1974 Turpin gave up being general director of PCI though he's continued to work the same kinds of care in his other endeavors and some of the work, for example in Vietnam,〔 has survived. Turpin continues to help with fundraising for PCI. Since then, the focus of the organization has remained true to its founder: PCI works in vulnerable communities to improve health and create long-term change by helping people help themselves. For fifty years, thousands of dedicated individuals and groups have worked to make this vision a reality. Today, PCI employs over 600 staff and has thousands of volunteers in countries all over the world, including the United States.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 PCI's History )〕 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「Project Concern International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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