 In October 2009, Axel visited the SOS Children's Village Santa Ana in El Salvador. He was particularly impressed with the female village director… but it was the children, of course, who conquered his heart. More... SOS Children's Village Mexico City is currently a large building site and village director Carlos is happy to show it off. But actually, he prefers to talk proudly about Martha Torres, a woman who can readily be described as a pioneer of SOS Children's Villages' urban work.
More... Many children in Laos are still suffering from the long shadows cast by their country's terrible history. SOS Children's Villages has therefore set itself the task of making it possible for this country to have a better future. This will happen only when its children are happy (June 2010). More... Interview with Soumata Dengchampa, Director of SOS Children's Villages Laos (June 2010) More... Lately, the world has turned its attention once again to Cambodia - "Duch", the perpetrator of the torture and murder of over 12,000 people, was recently sentenced as the leader of the Khmer Rouge to 19 years in prison. Cambodia has certainly had a troubled past, one which has seen colonialism, civil war, and which culminated in the terror regime of the Khmer Rouge. The consequences of which were famine, disease, and poverty. And the vast majority of the victims were children. But now, for the first time in ten years, Cambodia has once again started to bloom. And the children of the country can smile again, not least thanks to organisations like SOS Children's Villages. More...Geographically nestled between India and China, Nepal battles with a weak economy and all difficulties that go with being a multiethnic state. Shree Shankar Pradhananga, the director of SOS Children’s Villages Nepal, on social capitalism, his country’s inner beauty, the Tibetan minority, and why the integration of children into society is the most important challenge to be faced. More... |