International Orphan Care
Every penny makes a different: Help Afghan orphans
The mission of IOC is to provide the orphans of Afghanistan with HOPE (Help Orphans be Productive and Educated). IOC gives HOPE by helping to reintegrate children from homes where they are missing a father or a father and mother back into society. IOC provides these children the means to go to school so they can spend their days learning instead of working, begging on the streets or turning to other desperate sources for survival.
Our Story
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Laguna Hills, California, International Orphan Care (IOC) is a nonprofit, non-religious, non-political, and non-sectarian humanitarian organization. The first IOC school was established in January 1993 in a rented building in Jalalabad as a vocational institution to provide work skills to the eldest son of a family whose father was deceased. Since that first student, IOC has worked to provide the educational and humanitarian rights of countless Afghan youth.
More than half the population in Afghanistan is under the age of nineteen, thus the education and well-being of the Afghan youth is paramount in the development and progress of society. IOC believes that children are the future and strives to positively change the lives of children to be educated and productive members of society. All facets of the organization are focused on this core value.
