 24/06/2011 - The first trainings for SOS mothers have started in Ghana in the new training centre for the Central and West Africa region. Now it is possible for all SOS mothers, family assistants and other care givers to be trained together according to our standards. More... 20/03/2010 - In order to encourage a reading culture in children, the SOS Social Centre in Gulu opened a children's library. Children were involved in the planning process and will be trained as spare-time volunteers for the library. More... Even though education is the right of every child not all children go to school. The SOS family strengthening programme in Mombasa, Kenya, arranged for ten days of free holiday tuition to the poorest children in the community who turned up in high numbers. SOS social worker Celia Wangui tells us about it (August 2009). More... 05/06/2009 - 1 June was a day of celebration at the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Sheikh Secondary School, as the President of Somaliland and other government ministers paid a visit to the school. More... Despite constant political unrest and threat of violence in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, SOS Children's Villages' local facilities are fully functional. Musa Ibrahim Dugow, principal of SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary and Secondary School, gives insight into the situation of students in a country plagued by war and poverty (June 2009). More... "An advantage for the disadvantaged" is how one parent recently described the special class that is available for children with special needs at SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School Blantyre in Malawi. More... As an actor in civil society, SOS Children's Villages has decided to invest more in education from 2009 to 2016. This will particularly affect children who are at risk of losing or have already lost their parents. More... 25/07/2008 - The SOS Hermann Gmeiner School Bethlehem has been chosen as one among 20 private schools in Palestine to participate in America-Mideast Educational and Training Services (AMIDEAST) Model Schools Network Programme (MSN). More... The impact of HIV/AIDS on children in the Central African Republic is increasing rapidly, as is the rate of children who have been orphaned as a result of this pandemic and the accompanying vulnerabilities. In 2006, SOS Children's Villages, launched an education programme for orphans and vulnerable children (February 2008). More... Zenaye, a 30-year-old women, grew up in an SOS Children's Village in Ethiopia. She studied in the United States and then returned to Africa. Talking to her, one is really impressed by this young women and her strong will to better the lives of others.
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