Description
SOS Children’s Villages provides a loving home for children in need. We work for children who are orphaned, abandoned or whose families are unable to care for them.
Focus themes
HealthcareEducationSportsHuman RightsProblem statement
At SOS Children’s Villages we believe that children can only develop to their full potential if they have a supportive and protective family environment. We work to make this a reality. At the centre of our SOS Children’s Villages programme is the individual child. We encourage children to actively take part in the making of decisions that affect their lives.
Goal
Our goal is to provide a loving and safe family setting for children so they can reach their full potential.
Main activities
Family strengthening programme`s SOS Children’s Villages works with disadvantaged families in order to prevent crises that can lead to family separation. They offer various forms of support to strengthen and stabilise families as much as possible so that children can grow up in their own families. The aim is always to build the skills and capacities of carers and of their communities so that children can enjoy positive and caring relationships. SOS children`s villages When children lost their parents or cannot be raised in their biological family, SOS Children's Villages offers family-based care. Worldwide there are 518 SOS children's villages that provide a loving home to these children. Here they grow up within a SOS family, with a mother and brothers and sisters, until they are independent young adults.
If we raise €5.175 we can provide a medical tent in one of the transition facilities. Please help the lost children of South Sudan!
29 Mar 2012
To protect and support the lost children of South Sudan, SOS Children’s Villages is starting an emergency intervention for 400 unaccompanied children aged 2 to 12 years. The proposed intervention intends to reintegrate children with their families and, while they are in transit facilities in Juba and Malakal, to give them adequate shelter, care and psychosocial support.
The situation in South Sudan
29 Mar 2012
With the secession of South Sudan, the Khartoum Government set an ultimatum for South Sudan authorities to find ways to resettle internally displaced persons residing in the North either as street families or in refugee camps. Among this group, estimated by the UN to be about 500,000, are 2.000 unaccompanied children displaced by the conflict in the south. The deadline for repatriation is currently 8 April 2012. Child protection actors in the country are warning that if no urgent solution is found for children, a crisis is inevitable and most of the unaccompanied children may end up on the streets of major cities in South Sudan... read more
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Furnish a family house
Help us create a loving home for orphans and abandoned children in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala.
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Educate Kids in Medan
Provide Education & development for 31 children in the SOS children’s village in Medan, Indonesia
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Emergency Relief Program in Syria
The conflict in Syria has escalated in 2011. What seemed to be a passing crisis turned into a fully-fledged war with millions of civilians falling as victims of the clashes. Half of these civilians are children. As an international non-governmental organization with the main goal to protect and promote the rights of the child, As a globally recognised leader in the childcare, SOS Children’s Villages is taking a leading role to protect Syria’s children and take an active part in alleviating human suffering in Syria and focus on providing aid for the children and their families in need.
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WorldCoaches
WorldCoaches South Africa. Training for life. Support one WorldCoach for four years. Playing football is a very effective way to reach young people and unite them. For the football World Cup 2010, KNVB and SOS Children’s Villages bundled their strengths in the WorldCoaches, in order to stimulate youth in their talents and passion and enable them to develop themselves. Beside being an expert football coach, a WorldCoach is a social coach as well, teaching the children life skills. The WorldCoach is a motivator, educator, organizer and role model for children and youth in the community. By supporting this project, you enable 1 of 110 WorldCoaches to train young people for 4 years, so that a new generation will be trained in football and other life skills.
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Create a town medical post
Supply a medical post where both children and community members can find medical care.
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Furnish a Kindergarten
Furnish the classrooms of the primary school, so children can get their first education. The SOS Children's Village also offers facilities for the community, since they are lacking. One of the facilities is a primary school, that offers education to 280 children. These are children from the Children's Villages and out of the community.
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Family Care for Medan
SOS Children's Villages supports vulnerable families with Family Strengthening Programs designed to prevent child abandonment. If this is not possible we offer children a loving home in one of the SOS children's villages. At this moment we provide a loving home for 119 children in the SOS Children's Village in Medan. Every child in the SOS children’s Village has its own story. The children lost their homes in earthquakes or the tsunami, lived on the streets and were often severely malnourished when they arrived in the children’s village. A number of children are victims of severe abuse and mistreatment. And many children have lost their parents through traffic accidents and illness by excessive alcohol use. Poverty also plays a major role.
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Basics for Kids in Medan
Provide Basic needs for 31 children in the SOS children’s village in Medan, Indonesia
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