Emergency aid
Disasters and crises: SOS Children's Villages provide emergency aid
Natural disasters, famines and wars affect, above all, the weakest: children. SOS Children's Villages therefore provides emergency aid for children and families in disaster and crisis areas.
Saving lives: Emergency humanitarian aid for children and families
Our emergency relief actions always start from the SOS Children's Villages in their respective country. This enables fast, efficient and sustainable aid: Our local co-workers are often among the first helpers in the disaster area. They know the country and its people, and thus cultural and national peculiarities that often cause problems for foreign relief teams. We coordinate our emergency relief actions with local and national authorities and work together with other aid organisations. Our emergency aid often leads to long-term reconstruction and development projects: When other aid teams have long since left, SOS Children's Villages remain active on the ground to give children and families a new start.
How we support:
Emergency aid with food, clothing and medicine: Children are among the first victims of famine. Diseases such as diarrhoea, which are common after floods, are life-threatening for young children. The relief supplies that SOS employees distribute to families in crisis areas also include baby food and children's clothing..- Emergency shelters: We take in war orphans, refugee children, homeless families and unaccompanied children in temporary shelters or in SOS Children's Villages.
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Family reunification: Our co-workers, in cooperation with the authorities, try to reunite families that have been separated in the chaos. Children who no longer have relatives can find a new and permanent home in our SOS Children's Villages.
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Psychological care: Children in war and disaster areas experience horrific things. We provide psychological care for traumatised children.
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Child protection centres: Our staff provides temporary education in emergency day centres and look after children while their parents rebuild their homes.
Emergency aid & reconstruction aid:
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Reconstruction aid: Families made homeless by natural disasters receive building materials and help to rebuild their homes. Communities are supplied with clean drinking water by drilling wells or supported in the construction of schools.
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Long-term aid projects: New SOS Children's Villages, social centres, or SOS clinics, often emerge from our emergency aid. Example: After the Tsunami that hit South Asia in December 2004, SOS Children's Villages launched the largest relief operation in its history.
Support emergency aid projects!
Many SOS Children's Villages emergency aid campaigns develop from our long-term project work in the affected communities, such as Family Strengthening Programs. Often, these are regionally limited crises and disasters that attract little media attention or are quickly forgotten.
Help children and families around the world who are struggling to survive. In order to be able to act quickly and globally in disaster and crisis areas, we rely on free or earmarked donations ("Where it is most needed"). Thank you for helping!
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