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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Two girls sitting on the floor, one sister embracing the other one

Two girls sitting on the floor, one sister embracing the other one

The heart-wrenching stories of three AIDS orphans at N'Djamena in Chad:

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Two girls from the Phillipines leaning against each other

Two girls from the Phillipines leaning against each other

In 2008 Typhoon Fengshen (Frank) hit the Philippines. Whilst the SOS Children’s Village most local to the disaster, SOS Children’s Village Iloilo, was thankfully unaffected, this did not stop the efforts by SOS Children to support the local relief effort for the community:

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

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

As it currently stands, the emergency relief effort in Haiti will probably go on for some time. This may be similar to the effort in Kashmir, where even two years after the 2005 earthquake, SOS Children was still actively involved in the emergency relief effort, as highlighted in this article:

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Aerial shot from the surroundings of CV Santo after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince

Aerial shot from the surroundings of CV Santo after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince

Like the Haiti disaster, in Kashmir, in 2005, SOS Children was inextricably linked to the disaster due to its position and long term work within the region. This article is about the SOS Children Emergency Relief Effort in the region:

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Girl doing the laundry

Girl doing the laundry

It has been over five years now since the devastating tsunami hit Indonesia and South-East Asia on Boxing Day in 2004. After the Emergency Relief Effort finished, SOS Children remained, and still do to this day. This is a story about how one particular girl’s life was changed dramatically by the tsunami:

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Children in school pointing at a worldmap

Children in school pointing at a worldmap

A year after the Asian tsunami, a journalist went to Indonesia to find the stories of children who were affected by the disaster. This is a story about Eti, a child who was left traumatized after the quake:

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A woman waiting for medical care in N'Djamena, Chad:

A woman waiting for medical care in N'Djamena, Chad:

A look at some of the facts and figures behind an SOS Medical Centre in Chad, Africa:

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The local community selects the fruits of their choice.on International Fruit Day at SOS SC Nairobi...A girl and her brother in Limon

The local community selects the fruits of their choice.on International Fruit Day at SOS SC Nairobi...A girl and her brother in Limon

This article is about the first ever International Fruit Day, a celebration of fruit, made possible in Nairobi thanks to the generosity of a German donor:

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Portrait of a boy playing accordion in the garden...A Latvian child holding a cat

Portrait of a boy playing accordion in the garden...A Latvian child holding a cat

This is a story about how children from Tomilino were given the chance to enjoy sport as part of a ‘SOS delegation’ in 2007:

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