 23/04/2012 – The conflict that began 20 years ago, ended when peace was declared in 1995. The cessation of violence on the streets signalled the beginning of a new era of domestic strife for one family. See how they were eventually strengthened. View the video 26/03/2012 - Hilary Atkins accompanied officials from Street Children Aid in Juba, South Sudan, to the local rubbish dump where they found children collecting metal and playing cards. More... 23/3/2012 - Since SOS Children's Villages Somalia was established in 1985, the threat of violence has regularly caused the closure of our facilities. Irrespective of how hopeless the situation may appear, our teams continue to innovate as they uphold the principal that says: every child has the right to quality health care. Watch the video 22/03/2012 - The misdiagnoses of Asperger’s syndrome has led many innocent and intelligent children around the world to a life of imprisonment, psychiatric medication and bullying. This is the story an SOS Family who devised their own preventative health strategy to ensure that would not happen where they live.
Read her story 09/03/2012 - Earning under two dollars a day selling clothes to a community of migrants in Mongolia was not the life Oyuntsetseg wanted for her four children. In an unusual twist of fate, her subsequent battle with cancer signalled a positive beginning for her and other women now supported by her and SOS Children's Villages.
More... 08/02/2012 Adama and Awa, are the pride and joy of the SOS Children’s Village Bakoteh. They have accomplished what the boys can only dream of: they have been chosen to join Gambia's National Football team. Adama inspires others as she tells what playing for her country's Womens U-17 team means to her.
More... 26/01/2012 - Six months after famine was declared, 460,000 children remain malnourished in Somalia, while four million people remain in crisis. Providing therapeutic feeding, vaccines, maternity and a multitude of other services are heroic SOS Children’s Villages teams, who say the forgotten heroes are at home. More... 20/01/2012 – Building a haven where children can unleash their imagination was the challenge. The result; a unique concept inspired by children, a Belgian artist and a French fashion house.
More... 11/01/2012 - A new type of bond is providing the business world with reason for optimism in 2012. In spite of global economic uncertainty, innovative and multidimensional corporate partnerships developed in the recent past are now yielding positive dividends.
More... 20/12/2011 - The UN General Assembly, in a landmark step for children's rights, adopted a new Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) establishing a complaints procedure for violations of children's rights. More... |