At the beginning of the 1960s the SOS Children's Village idea reached Scandinavia. On 10 July 1964 a small group of people close to the Austrian Consul at that time, Arne Örvig, founded the "Komiteen for norske venner av SOS-barnebyer" (Commitee of Norwegian Friends of the SOS Children's Villages) to support the worldwide activities of SOS Children's Villages.
During the first years only individual family houses in different SOS Children's Villages were financed, like the "Fritjof Nansen" family house in the SOS Children's Village Daegu in South Korea in 1967. The funds raised in the 1973 "Operasjon Dagsverk" (Operation Day’s work) campaign, made an important contribution to the construction of the SOS Children's Village Dhaka in Bangladesh.
The number of sponsors and friends of SOS Children's Villages Norway increased steadily, and in 1979 the SOS Children's Village Rajshahi in Bangladesh was to become the first SOS Children's Village completely financed with Norwegian funds. In 1983 the Norwegian Association was renamed "Stiftelsen SOS-barnebyer Norge" (The foundation of SOS Children's Villages Norway). Princess Märtha Louise was SOS Norway's patroness in the 1990s, and she has visited SOS Children's Villages in several countries.
The development of a network of local, voluntary supporters started in the mid 1980s and now consists of 550 volunteers. Most of the activities in the provinces are done by this network.
SOS Children's Villages enjoys strong support from the Norwegian people and is the NGO who receives the most means from the private market in Norway. At present more than 250 000 sponsors and active donors in Norway support the activities of SOS Children's Villages worldwide. In addition, a large number of kindergartens, schools, organizations and companies support SOS Children's Villages Norway.
The first Norwegian SOS children’s village was officially opened in Bergen in 2009.