 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... 17/11/2011 - The SOS Mother and Child Clinic in The Gambia, opened in 1997, is one of the most advanced medical institutions in the country. In early 2010, SOS Children’s Villages added a new maternity ward. From day one, there has been no shortage of work for midwife Mariama and her colleagues. More... 20/06/2011 - Geovanny came to the SOS Social Center in Central Estelí, Nicaragua, in 1989 as a baby that might never be able to walk. With a strong will and spirit, the strong boy proved the doctors wrong: He can not only walk, but also got into university years later. More... Madeleine and Paul are beneficiaries of the SOS Children's Villages family strengthening programme in Rwanda. Both are coping with the difficulties of life without their spouses, who died from AIDS. Their stories are compelling examples of the positive effects SOS family strengthening programmes are having in sub-Saharan Africa. More... Zanana may be only 26 years old, but she has already learned more about life than some people many years older. Zanana is HIV-positive, out of work, and shunned by others around her. Despite this, she is embracing life as a volunteer counsellor at the SOS Social Centre in Mthatha, South Africa. More... Since 2004, when both parents died from HIV/AIDS, Georgio*, 18, heads his family of five siblings living on their own in Maputo, Mozambique. Being the head of a household is a heavy burden on any teenager - a situation found with terrifying regularity across Mozambique. More... Claire's husband died of AIDS in 1995, just a few days before she was diagnosed with HIV herself. The 48-year old mother of six is 48 years works as a teacher in Bujumbura. She has been one of the beneficiaries of the SOS family strengthening programme for about three years. More... In a country where one in five children are said to be orphaned, the numbers and impact are so vast that sometimes it is hard to imagine that those numbers actually represent children. Three teachers at the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School Bindura comment about what this means to them. More... 17-year-old Adama goes to the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School Bakoteh in Gambia, a country where 69 % of the population live below the poverty line. She breaks the culture of silence surrounding HIV/AIDS. Read her poem.
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