International China Concern is a Christian organization founded in 1993 by David Gotts after seeing firsthand in China the suffering of children with disabilities, who had been abandoned and left without hope in desperate conditions. In the beginning, ICC sent short-term teams into China to provide care in government welfare centres. Later, they established permanent locations which provide full-time family-style care for children in Changsha and Hengyang in Hunan Province.
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What They Do
International China Concern is a Christian development organisation dedicated to changing lives by bringing love, hope and opportunity to China’s abandoned and disabled children. Since its founding in 1993, International China Concern has partnered with the Chinese government to develop social welfare services for China’s most vulnerable children – the abandoned and disabled. Their services include:
- Family-style group homes: Today, ICC is working in 2 areas in China: Changsha and Hengyang in Hunan Province – to provide holistic care and nurture to abandoned and disabled children and young adults.
- Family support services: ICC strives to end abandonment by providing family support services to those families raising children with disabilities.