 While every one of the 54 articles of the UN Convention is crucial to the protection and well-being of all children, we have selected those that have the most direct bearing on the work of SOS Children's Villages to be presented in a language that is easily accessible for children and young people. More... They help each other out, they argue, they love each other, they're inseparable. The SOS Children's Village in the town of Cali is home to Kimberly, Leidy and Brian. The Colombian SOS Children's Village is the 500th in the world. There, the three siblings grow up together in a family. More... It began almost thirty years ago with an SOS Children's Village in Piliyandala near the capital of Colombo. The most recent project is an emergency aid programme for unaccompanied and orphaned children from the former civil war zone in the north of the country. More... We all grew up with things that, for a time, meant everything to us, regardless of what they were worth in material terms, because in the first instance it is not about ownership, but about a connection. More... Having to grow up without your parents and then without your brothers and sisters either - it's one trauma after another. Many children that end up in out-of-home care not only have to cope with being separated from their mother and father, but also often have to cope with being separated from their brothers and sisters. More... Over 5,200 women are working more or less around the clock, doing a job that is not exactly an ordinary job, but seems to match quite well the established profile of what it is to be a mother. More... |
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 Mouna is three years old. She lives in Uganda. Like millions of other orphans, she had to fend for herself. No father, no mother, no home, no future. For a year now, Mouna has been living in the SOS Children's Village Gulu and has found a new home there. More... Alice is 44 years old and is the mother of twelve children, one of whom is Mouna. "I take care of the children as if they were my own." More... The Democratic Republic of Congo is regarded as a collapsed state. Years of fighting, involving many different interest groups, have completely destroyed the third largest country in Africa. The country's poisoned chalice, ironically is its abundance of natural resources. In this context, please read an interview with the director of SOS Children's Villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Marthe Kangene, which we conducted three years ago. There have been no significant improvements to the situation of the country's children - on the contrary. That is why another SOS Children's Village is currently being set up in Kinshasa. More... The majority of the children at the SOS Children's Villages share the same fate - they have been orphaned through war. More... On the occasion of the Olympic Games we would like to introduce you to the work of SOS Children's Villages in the host country China. We would like to invite you to take a look around and make a virtual journey to the ten SOS Children’s villages of China. More... The two SOS Schools in the Palestinian Territories strive to offer children the best possible education regardless of the difficulties they encounter daily. Even getting to school is a problem on some days and in some areas. More... Much more needs to be invested in education in the Palestinian Territories. Improving the education on offer would also contribute to a peaceful society. More... Other than the President of SOS Children's Villages, there can hardly be anyone who has seen so many different SOS Children's Villages. Benno Neeleman does not know exactly how many he has been, but he is sure about one thing: for him, they are among the nicest places in each country. More... He was in Rwanda just after the genocide. When he returned, he began to think he should give up taking photographs, but the gentle voice of this strong man asks us: "But then who would tell their stories?" More... SOS Children's Villages supports more than 3,400 children and their families with its family strengthening programmes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and the CIS. This number is expected to more than double in 2008. Why is SOS Children's Villages increasingly involved in preventive social work for disadvantaged families, as well as providing family-based care for neglected and abandoned children at SOS Children's Villages?
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