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Latest News from SOS Children’s Villages – May 18, 2012
Here are the latest top stories from SOS Children’s Villages.
Mali’s Children Suffering from Drought, Rebellion, and Displacement
May 16, 2012: While people across West Africa’s Sahel region are facing a food crisis, children from Mali are up against particularly harsh odds. [...]
Mother’s Day is Every Day
Every year, we celebrate Mother’s Day as a day to give a special thanks to the people in our lives that have been so instrumental in providing loving, unselfish care. For many this is our biological mother, while for others [...]
Serena Software’s “Doug” Campaign Supports SOS Children’s Villages
Have you ever had a team leader who came in, shook things up and saved the day for your company or organization? These kinds of people tend to be well-rounded, thoughtful — professionals who are passionate about everything in their [...]
Millennium Development Goal #2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
In September 2000, the United Nations established the 8 Millennium Development Goals that include specific measurable targets and timelines for countries to achieve noticeable results by 2015 in areas such as health, education, poverty and environmental sustainability. These goals provide [...]
World Health Day 2012 Promotes Good Health
Every year, on April 7th, the World Health Organization celebrates World Health Day. This is a day in which governments, leaders, and the public across the world are invited to focus on a single global health challenge. The theme for [...]
SOS Children’s Villages: More than just shelter, food and clothes
Patrick is a 20-year-old who lives at the youth facility of SOS Children’s Village Kigali in Rwanda. Abandoned by both parents at an early age, he was forced to live in the streets and beg. At that time, he never [...]
Women Learn How to Make Soap in Niger
As a result of a training initiative by SOS Children’s Villages Niger, Zeinabou, a widowed mother of two, can feed her family – something she struggled with in the past. School fees, uniforms and stationery are now affordable to her. [...]
SOS Youth Gets Opportunity to Meet Real Madrid, His Favorite Soccer Team
Thanks to SOS Children’s Village Bogota, my SOS Mother and a great SOS family, I was able to make one of my biggest dreams come true of going to see Real Madrid.
My name is Diego. I was born in Albania, [...]
Strenthening Families in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya is the home to one of the first SOS Children’s Village in Africa. The first SOS Kenya Village opened in the early 1970s in Buru Buru, a suburb of Nairobi. Its aim was to help reduce the ever-increasing number [...]
Playtime is Part of Training for SOS Mothers
For a couple of years now, training of SOS Mothers from the North/West Africa region has included an unusual topic: “playtime!” Even if children do play alone or amongst themselves, it is still very important for their mother to take [...]
