SOS mother walking along the grain fields at Children's Village…
SOS Children's Villages Paraguay offers training to young adults in the form of an agricultural collage. I have been finding out more about this collage and the kind of help it offers.
- Lisa
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SOS mother walking along the grain fields at Children's Village Hohenau, Paraguay.
SOS Children's Villages Paraguay offers training to young adults in the form of an agricultural collage. I have been finding out more about this collage and the kind of help it offers.
The agricultural SOS Vocational Training Centre in Belén offers hands-on farming experience for young adults. Farming can really boost the economony in rural areas. It also allows younger memebers of the community to remain in rural areas, near their families, rather than move to the cities to find work. The movement of people to big cities has contributed to the growth of enormous slums on the outskirts of many big cities.
The centre in Belén is operated as a working/training farm. It offers practical agricultural training to 48 young people who have completed their basic education. In addition to traditional subjects, students learn basic ecological values, ecological agriculture and its importance for mankind, as well as protection and renewal of natural energy resources. Twenty hectares of rain forest are also part of the SOS Vocational Training Centre Belén. Forest preservation, utilisation in accordance with the needs of nature and re-forestation are important subjects in the training farm's curriculum. - Mary
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The SOS Medical Centre Mogadishu, Somalia.
This is a report from the begining of this year that explains the situation in Mogadishu and how it had continued to improve.It's a good example of how SOS cares and rebuilds:
The village director, Osman Shukri, the SOS mothers and children were very exited to be back in their SOS homes. "Children were running from house to house to meet their neighbours whom they hadn't seen for about a year" he said, "since they had been living in different parts of the city. Mothers and children were happily sorting out their homes with lots of energy".
Osman Shukri also said that the SOS co-workers were so happy to receive the SOS children and youth back to the village. They loudly commented, he added, that the village has become alive with the presence of children and youth moving and playing around.
The SOS families moved out of the children's village in December 2007 after mortar shells hit the village killing one SOS auntie and injuring an SOS mother. Since then the area has been occupied by Ethiopian troops pursuing insurgents. The troops pulled out earlier this year and the area has become peaceful once more. The SOS hospital continued to operate throughout most of that period but many people found it difficult to reach because of army road blocks. Now that the troops are gone the hospital will once again be operating at full capacity.
Osman Shukri concluded that "all the children, youth, SOS mothers, aunts and co- workers are praying for peace to prevail in order for all of us to remain as one big family in the SOS Childrens Village Mogadishu".
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