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 baking cookies at the social center São Paulo-Poá, Brazil.…

Children baking cookies at the social center São Paulo-Poá, Brazil.…

Baking with your mum in the kitchen is one of the nicer parts of being a kid, but not all children are as fortunate to have this time. For some children there is no kitchen or stable home because their parents are not around. For these children there is sometimes no choice other than to sleep on the street. I found out in this interview how such children are helped back into a life where they can enjoy simple pleasures like learning to bake. This is report is from Claudia Mödlagl, who is a psychologist for SOS Children’s Villages Brazil.

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Children playing a board game as part of a Playbus activity in Tbilisi, Georgia.…

Children playing a board game as part of a Playbus activity in Tbilisi, Georgia.…

The SOS Playbus is a mobile play centre which is open to children and young adults in the community. A team of four teachers travel in the minibus, full of games and art materials, to places where children and young people spend their free time.

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Children from Day Care Centre Addis Abeba Ethiopia.…

Children from Day Care Centre Addis Abeba Ethiopia.…

"Whenever I have this memory I give credit to my dearest SOS mother, Almaz Abate for instilling the value of hard work and for nurturing genuine love and care for others in me at such a young age."

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Children eating lunch at Children's Village Piliyandala, Sri Lanka.…

Children eating lunch at Children's Village Piliyandala, Sri Lanka.…

This lunch is in the home of one of the families helped by SOS Children's Village program to prevent the abandonment of children.

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A child feels safe at Children's Village Iloilo in The…

A child feels safe at Children's Village Iloilo in The…

On the 24th June 2008 SOS Children's Villages in the Philippines worked to distribute food to typhoon victims in Iloilo. This is a short account of how they did it.

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A portrait of girl in SOS Children's Village Bahir Dar,…

A portrait of girl in SOS Children's Village Bahir Dar,…

Here is a bit of background to the SOS Children's Village Bahir Dar.

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A bowl of Easter eggs at Children's Village Bucharest, Romania.…

A bowl of Easter eggs at Children's Village Bucharest, Romania.…

Ms Katerina Ilievska from the charity in Macedonia spent Easter in Romanian. This is her experience.

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A boy holding his younger brother at Children's Village Poá,…

A boy holding his younger brother at Children's Village Poá,…

This little boy was a street child. I have been investigating the kind of future a street child might be able to have with some SOS support.

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A snow fall in Children's Village Córdoba in Argentina.…

A snow fall in Children's Village Córdoba in Argentina.…

I have a little collection of facts for you about the Córdoba village to go with the photo of new snow.

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A view of the crowd waiting for the foodstuff distribution…

A view of the crowd waiting for the foodstuff distribution…

In the August of 2005, SOS provided emergency relief in famine-struck Niger. This is the story of what happened:

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