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Youth Employability

Learnio: Embarking on the journey to digital employment

November 16 2023 - Knowing how to use a computer to find information and communicate is one thing – building a digital services career is the next level. Digital skills trainings provided by Learnio Social Enterprise in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages are becoming a cornerstone of the Digital Villages programme.

TOGETHER PROJECT

Meaningful child and youth participation in public decision-making: new e-learning course

November 15 2023 - As we approach World Children’s Day, SOS Children’s Villages has developed a new e-learning course which aims to remind adults with policy and decision-making responsibilities of their role as duty bearers to uphold children’s rights and make them a reality in day-to-day life.

Africa

New report shows an estimated 35 million children in Africa are without parental care

November 10 2023 - An estimated 35 million children are without parental care in Africa, a report released by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, part of the African Union, has shown.

Safeguarding

Progress Update: Implementing ISC Recommendations

November 2 2023 - The final report of the Independent Special Commission (ISC) was published in June 2023, the culmination of more than a year and a half of collaboration between the ISC and SOS Children’s Villages, which also included an interim report from the ISC provided in summer 2022.

ETHIOPIA

Selam fights against FGM for herself and other girls in her community

October 31 2023 - Selam*, 11, arrived at home from school one day and found her mother with an older woman waiting for her. Her mother said they wanted “a tiny part” of her body cut off. Selam knew what the two women meant.

Palestine

SOS Children's Villages strongly condemns airstrike on its facilities in Gaza

October 23 2023 - Two apartments where SOS Children's Villages in Gaza provided housing for families living in the community were completely destroyed in an airstrike. The people living in the apartments had already been relocated to another location further south. No programme participants or staff were killed or injured by this strike.