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Family Focus 2012 - Challenging times

Investing in family is more about attitude than economics

15/05/2012 – Investing in family is more about attitude than economics, according to the SOS Children’s Villages Family Focus 2012 report published today. Entitled, “Challenging Times – What can be done to make 2013 better for families”. Itoutlines realistic options for legislators and others who wish to do something NOW to improve matters in the year ahead. More...
Photo: SOS Archives

Mali: Displaced children attend SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools

04/05/2012 – SOS Children’s Villages Mali is helping to protect 134 children of families who have fled the anarchic situation in the North in Mali’s three SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools. The children of the evacuated SOS Children’s Village Socoura will likely remain in the two SOS Children’s Villages in the South for another year. More...
Photo: Sandrine Houalet

Situation in Mali deteriorating – children's safety is first priority

06/04/2012 – The people of Mali are forced to stand in line for gas, food and cash; up to 200,000 are fleeing the rebels advancing from the North, where the SOS Children's Village Socoura Mopti was evacuated on 1 April. More...
SOS Children's Village evacuated in Mali - Photo: SOS Archive

Uncertainty in Mali leads to evacuation of SOS Children's Village

02/04/2012 – The movement of armed rebels and subsequent political instability in Mali has led to the evacuation of 140 children from the SOS Children's Village in in the city of Mopti to other facilities 600km southwest of the troubled northeast African state. More...
Sudan April 8th 2012 - Photo Hilary Atkins

AUDIO - Preparing for South Sudan's April 8th generation

23/03/2012 - South Sudan has a matter of days to provide food, shelter, medical facilities, and various services for thousands of unaccompanied children who are due to be transported from Khartoum before April 8th. The minister responsible in the Central Equatorial State outlines the challenges. Listen
Photo: Hilary Atkins

South Sudan prepares to welcome their children home

22/03/2012 - The Government of Sudan has ordered all Southern Sudanese to formalise their positions in the north or to return to South Sudan. As the April 8 deadline approaches the authorities, and SOS Children's Villages East Africa, are preparing for an influx of children. More...
Photo: Marriott International

Marriott serves up inspiring idea to support youth training

02/02/2012 – Tackling youth unemployment by dining at a Marriott hotel has made the process of charitable giving extremely appetising to diners across Europe. For every lunch or dinner purchased during February the hotel chain will donate €1 to SOS Youth Programmes. More...
E. Lavenac

Famine warning for West Africa

13/01/2011 - Early warning systems indicate famine is imminent in parts of Mali, northern Burkina Faso and parts of Senegal. Insufficient and erratic rainfall has led to a poor harvest as food reserves reach critically low levels across the Sahel. SOS Children's Villages is there. More...

Most vulnerable must not be forgotten

11/01/2012 - Plan International, SOS Children's Villages and World Vision call on the European Union (EU) to consider the protection of children and the economic and social support for their families in Haiti a top priority. More...
Photo: Sophie Preisch

PRESS RELEASE: Haiti two years after the devastating earthquake - Help must continue

03/01/2012 - On 12 January 2010, a massive earthquake struck Haiti claiming the lives of more than 230,000 people and affecting three million others. Significant progress has been made in reconstructing Haiti. Nevertheless, the country remains closer to a state of emergency and not close enough to a path of stability and a future that offers opportunities. In 2011, SOS Children's Villages helped to address the problem and began constructing new schools and expanded long-term social programmes for children and families. More...