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Youth employability

Over 200 young people in Latin America get skills training thanks to Salesforce mentors

February 4 2021 - Through an innovative online cross-border mentorship programme, young people received employability and life skills training from employees of Salesforce.

Brazil

Families struggle as pandemic spikes in Manaus

January 29 2021 - Hospitals in the Brazilian state of Amazonas and its capital city, Manaus, are overwhelmed after a surge of infections linked to a new Covid-19 variant.

Award

Nominate a caregiver for the Helmut Kutin Award

January 22 2021 - The biennial award, named after our honorary president, goes to SOS parents and other caregivers at SOS Children's Villages. Nominate a caregiver today. Deadline for nominations is Monday, 22 February.

Voices of youth

The best investment countries can make is in children and youth

January 14 2021 - Lusvin González Girón, 18, from Guatemala, was one of the speakers at the Joining Forces for All Children event on World Children’s Day. Lusvin, who grew up in an SOS Children’s Village, explains what led him to do advocacy and why the participation of children and young people is indispensable.

Care Leavers

Care Leavers speak up at the International Care Leavers Convention

December 21 2020 - Care leavers, from different continents and countries, came together to talk about their life with others who have lived through similar experiences finding resonance, camaraderie and friendships across borders and time zones.

Bosnia

'You get used to it' – remembering childhood in war

December 14 2020 - The official signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement on 14 December 1995 put an end to the Bosnian War, the most devastating armed conflict on European soil since World War II.

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