 11/02/2010 - UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie was visiting the country to raise awareness for the plight of the children following the earthquake. More... Italian's national goalkeeper Gigi Buffon together with his wife Alena Seredova have made a video appeal for SOS Haiti. More... Kim Gevaert, former Belgian sprint athlete, European Champion, winner of the bronze medal in the 4x100 relay at the World Championships 2007 and silver medal of the 4x100 at the Olympics 2008, is a close friend and supporter of SOS Children's Villages Belgium. More... Gabriel Rios, Puerto Rican musician who resides and works in Belgium, is ambassador of SOS Children's Villages Belgium and feels very much attached to the people in Haiti. He has taken the role of being the face of all aid actions for Haiti in Belgium.
More... Celigny Darius, the head of SOS Children's Villages Haiti, gives a brief summary of the situation just days after the disaster, and asks for help. More... Princess Salimah Aga Khan, ambassador and long-standing friend of SOS Children's Villages International, asks for support. More... The world-famous Dutch football player and "FIFA for SOS Children's Villages" ambassador is another prominent supporter of our relief aid for the children in Haiti. More... Liv Ullmann, world-famous Norwegian actress, appeals for help for children and families in Haiti who have lost everything within just seconds. More... My name is Leonie Saint Ange and I am a nurse for the SOS Children's Village and social programmes in Santo. More... My name is Lucien Guy-Chener and I work in the administration of the SOS Hermann-Gmeiner School in Santo. More... 19/01/2010 - The first SOS transport of relief supplies from the Dominican Republic to Haiti arrived in Santo on 18 January. This short video documents the loading of the truck in a joint action of co-workers, volunteers and youngsters at SOS Children's Villages in Santo Domingo. More... After the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January, a team of SOS Children's Villages from the Dominican Republic succeeded in flying to Haiti in a hired helicopter on 14 January. More... At the Velankanni fish market in South India, social worker Raji introduces us to Leelavathy, a 30-year-old widow who the SOS Social Centre took care of immediately following the disaster. More... Nine-year-old fisher girl Thangalakshmi lives here with her sister Pushpa. They and their eight SOS siblings are looked after by 38-year-old Danalakshmi. She is divorced and has no children, but here she can be a mother. We are in SOS Children's Village Nagapattinam in South India. Thanks to generous tsunami donations, 81 orphaned children have had a new home here since 2008. More... On 24 December 2009, Vanitha was just nine years old. Her father found her a few days later in a hastily built emergency shelter. Both of them had lost absolutely everything - the tsunami had not only taken their loved ones, but also all their belongings. That's where the SOS emergency aid programme came in. More... SOS Children's Village number 500 is located right in the heart of Cali, Columbia's third largest city. After two years of construction work, the first six SOS families were finally able move into their new homes in September 2009. And within no time at all a rather inconspicuous little village which is hidden in a side street of the big city was full of life - the life of fifty children! Watch this video for a first-hand experience of the lively village. More... In this film you can see an example of how SOS Children's Villages gets involved to help children and their families in Nepal. Young people explain what they think people need to feel at home. Staff from SOS Children's Villages also show what SOS Children's Villages does to make this possible and the children themselves show that it works. View now... The children from SOS Children's Village Dren in Bulgaria take you on a tour around their village. All clips have been filmed by the children themselves. Enjoy!
View now... We asked children and an SOS mother from Skopje in Macedonia what, for them, made a loving home, what they needed to feel at home and what being at home meant to them. A short film that leaves us in no doubt...
View now... Wolfgang and the two Daniels wanted to find something out: the three young people from Austria asked children, teenagers and adults what "peace" meant to them and recorded their answers on screen. Watch the video to hear the answers the three of them got!
View now... "Here I am" is the title of the song that premiered at the 18th General Assembly of SOS-Kinderdorf International in Austria in July 2008. A group of 30 people, children and young people for the most part, sang the song live. It was a powerful and touching performance of the song, which is a musical commitment to child protection and children's rights. "Here I am" is now travelling over the different continents. Watch this video to hear how children from SOS Children's Village Gabú in Guinea-Bissau interpret the song. View now... What do we want to be strong for and what gives us strength? You can get an impression of what SOS Children's Villages stands for through a video. What we want for children is a child friendly environment, a family, a home, parents, education and personal growth, siblings and a feeling of being rooted in a community, as well as happy moments and cultural diversity. That's what SOS Children's Villages wants for every child. [3:44 min.] View now... |