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Historical Perspectives

1976 Guatemala's earthquake causes Robert Folkenberg to request Ken and Alcyon Fleck to begin a program for orphans in that country.
1976 La Liga, a group of volunteer physicians in California, pledge start-up funds for a program to care for orphans.
1977 Alcyon Fleck visits Guatemala to survey the needs of children there.
1978 International Children's Care is founded as an administrative link between volunteers in America and the orphan children. Ken and Alcyon Fleck are asked to supervise the new charity organization.
1979 Ken and Alcyon Fleck begin caring for orphans in Guatemala.
1979 A receiving center in Guatemala City is opened.
1982 The "Las Palmas" Children's Country Village begins to take in orphans in the Dominican Republic.
1986 ICC begins caring for abandoned children in foster homes in Colombia.
1991 ICC works out an agreement with the Guatemala SDA Mission to assume administration of ICAP, a secondary school adjacent to the Los Pinos orphanage in Guatemala.
1991 An orphan center on the Chiangmai Adventist Academy campus in Thailand is established. It is later named Kirsten Jade Rescue Center.
1991 A program to care for children with critical needs begins in Romania where at one time 450 families were being assisted.
1992 Land is purchased in Baja, Mexico, on which to develop a Children's Country Village.
1994 Fund-raising begins in the Netherlands with CDMI (Creative Direct Marketing International, Ltd.).
1995 A student home for orphans in Guatemala who have reached college level is opened in Costa Rica near Central American Adventist University.
1996 An affiliation is established between ICC and Daniel dos Santos who operates two orphan homes and several children's day care centers in Brazil.
 
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