Metadata: International Cooperation Department
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- World ORT
- Holding institution (official language):
- World ORT
- Postal address:
- World ORT, ORT House, 147 Arlington Road, London NW1 7ET
- Phone number:
- (0)20 7446 8595
- Web address:
- https://ortarchive.ort.org/
- Email:
- archive@ort.org
- Reference number:
- PC/ICD
- Title:
- International Cooperation Department
- Title (official language):
- International Cooperation Department
- Creator/accumulator:
- World ORT
- Date(s):
- 1970/2002
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
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Photographs documenting work undertaken by World ORT's International Cooperation department globally. These photographs document the important humanitarian work ORT has undertaken since the ratification of the International Cooperation departments at the 1960 ORT Congress in London.
A significant collection within this series includes the photographic records from Ethiopia (1970-1989). ORT negotiated with various international technical assistance agencies and government bodies to raise funds for a rural development project in the Gondar region. During 1977-1982 ORT implemented construction and training activities throughout the province. It set up 22 schools, educating a total of 3,000 students, aged 5-24, as well as a teachers’ training scheme. A variety of vocational courses for adults were created teaching carpentry, sewing, knitting, pottery, metal work and block manufacture.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Established in 1960, World ORTInternational Cooperation (IC) has implemented more than 350 projects in nearly 100 countries at the request of international agencies, national governments, local communities and private companies. World ORTIC is well-known as a major provider of long-term technical assistance that meets local needs and builds a self-sustainable local management capacity.
ORT’s Director General, Max Braude devoted his energies to extending this new field of ORT work. He assumed overall responsibility for it, assisted, in Geneva, first by Charles Levinson and, later, by Eugene Abrams, who headed the ORT Department of Technical Assistance. Since the U.S. Government could not proceed in areas of technical assistance unless projects were implemented by an American agency, American ORT played a large role in many of these undertakings.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged by country.
- Yerusha Network member:
- World ORT
- Author of the description:
- Jennifer Brunton, World ORT, 2024
