Youngsters helping with the emergency relief programme "Mitch" in Honduras - Photo: SOS-Archives
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...that currently there are 20 SOS Emergency Relief Programmes in operation for the benefit of more than 210.700 people (figures May 2006)?
...that in most emergency relief programmes existing SOS Children's Villages are the starting point and nerve centre of the various relief actions?
...that about 35 emergency relief programmes were carried out in the last 15 years, without taking into account a large number of spontaneous smaller relief actions and neighbourhood projects?
...that more than ten SOS Children's Villages resulted directly from emergency relief programmes (e.g. in Gode in Ethiopia, in Orissa and Gujarat in India or in Comitán in Mexico), as well as many other facilities such as medical centres, social centres and kindergartens?
...that the SOS Emergency Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia - an emergency relief programme that has been run permanently for ten years until today - is the most demanded facility among all SOS Children's Village projects with approximately 260,000 patients taken care of every year? And that SOS Children's Villages was the only relief organisation remaining in Somalia after all NGOs had left the country when the civil war reached its climax?
Field kitchen with solar cooker - help after the flood in Mozambique - Photo: M. Langhans
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...that SOS Children's Villages cooperates with various organisations such as UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, HNHCR, CICR, UNHCR, ECHO, "Save the children", among others, when carrying out its emergency relief programmes?
...that in the framework of emergency relief programmes, support is given to public institutions such as hospitals, kindergartens or schools and that in case of serious material damage or destruction, support is given to the renovation and reconstruction?
...that SOS Children's Villages carried out extensive national vaccination campaigns (e.g. in Angola) or supported the same, as for example the global vaccination programme GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization)?
...that many youngsters from SOS Children's Villages participate actively in many of the relief actions by collecting clothes and food and distributing emergency packages?