ABOUT ICT | History

International Childcare Trust (ICT) was founded in 1982 by David Lamont, who had worked as a teacher at the grassroots level in the UK, Asia and Africa.

Child Centred and Active Participation

David and a handful of his colleagues were dissatisfied with how organisations worked with vulnerable children, as they felt that children were being disconnected from their communities, institutionalised, and not properly consulted and actively involved in planning their own personal development. Therefore, ICT was founded on the concepts of empowerment and child-centred, active participation.

Assisting Refugee Families in the UK

In 1983, we began working to protect the rights of poor refugee families in the UK (Somalian, Vietnamese, Bangladeshi and Turkish Kurds). Local authorities have now taken over this aspect of our work.

Programmes in Asia and Africa

In 1984, work began in Sri Lanka with war-affected children. By 1986, we had established a programme in Zambia; by 1988, a programme in India; and by 1992, a programme in Kenya. Since then we've developed partnerships in Cambodia, Tanzania, Uganda. and, most recently, Nepal.

In all of our programmes, we work to protect children's rights within a community development context, so children, their families and their communities are always involved in the decisions that shape our supported programmes.