Sri Lanka

SOS Children has been in Sri Lanka since 1982 and was helping in hours following the Boxing Day Tsunami. Once other charities arrived, SOS Children specialised in care for 9000 children left alone, of whom over a hundred were tsunami orphans and are still cared for … more about our charity work in Sri Lanka

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Children in Ghana playing football

Children in Ghana playing football

A new entry from Kiara and Oana in their SOS Villages

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A child from SOS Children's Village Bucharest, Romania

A child from SOS Children's Village Bucharest, Romania

Another entry from Oana in Romania and Kiara in Ghana

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Children from SOS Children's Village Ghana playing

Children from SOS Children's Village Ghana playing

First entries from SOS workers Kiara and Oana. Kiara works at SOS International College in Ghana, and Oana works at the SOS Children's Village Bucharest in Romania.

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A portrait of a group carrying supplies after the earthquake in SOS Children's Village Santo, Haiti.

A portrait of a group carrying supplies after the earthquake in SOS Children's Village Santo, Haiti.

The SOS Children's Villages and Red Cross co-workers setting up a medical tent for in the SOS Children's Villages Santo after the Haiti earthquake.

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Shot from the sky of CV Santo after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince

Shot from the sky of CV Santo after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince

Modern technology and its impact on emergency relief work in Haiti.

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A girl standing in the field at the SOS Children's Village Khartoum, Sudan.

A girl standing in the field at the SOS Children's Village Khartoum, Sudan.

Our priorities and why they are important Our aim is to enhance the effectiveness of our long-term family based care model. The outcome of the work will depend on the quality and success of the social integration for our children and youth within the Sudanese culture, believes and religions. The main focus will be on supporting the villages and especially also the youth facilities to reach the standards contained in the SOS Children’s Village Manual and SOS Sudan concept. A key secondary objective will be to utilise capacity to the maximum to contribute to continental and global goals in terms of beneficiary numbers.

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Brothers and sisters who recieve family support at the SOS Social Center in Bakoteh, The Gambia

Brothers and sisters who recieve family support at the SOS Social Center in Bakoteh, The Gambia

Gambia is a multiethnic country; major ethnic groups include the Fula, Jola, Mandinka, Serahule, and Wolof. There is no part of The Gambia that is inhabited by one single ethnic group. This close dwelling has led to a sharing of many cultural traits among the groups, which has led to a movement toward a Gambian national culture. There has been a concentrated effort to represent the various minority ethnic groups in government. In addition to indigenous ethnic groups, there has also been an annual migration from Senegal, Guinea, and Mali. Many people from those countries come to trade in groundnuts (peanuts) and stay to settle.

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A portrait of three girls eating at SOS Children's Villages Tomilino, Russia

A portrait of three girls eating at SOS Children's Villages Tomilino, Russia

Almost 150 years took Tomilino to possession of the princely family Obolensky grow into a noble and Industrial Research Center of the Moscow region. Today pgt Tomilino, located in the heart of Luberets area is a large municipality, which include multi-storey residential building with two neighborhoods Ekopark and poultry and a number of villages and towns: Mirny, Chkalovo, Tokarev, Khlystova, ZA-1 and 2, Kirillovka. The number of inhabitants over 60 thousand in the period of leave and holidays, this figure increases markedly.

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A mother from SOS Children's Village Sri Lanka, holding a smiling child.

A mother from SOS Children's Village Sri Lanka, holding a smiling child.

SOS Children's Village Piliyandala in the capital of Colombo in Sri Lanka hosted about 200 children from the SOS Care Centre in Chettikulam refugee camp last month where they experienced family bonding and enjoyed their first homemade food in months. They were overwhelmed by the hospitality extended by the SOS families.

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