Family
Every child needs a family. We give parentless children a loving home and keep families in need together.
Children develop themselves and their potential best in a caring family environment. The SOS Children's Villages make this environment possible for children in need.
In the family at the SOS Children’s Village, a child finds protection, security and a sense of belonging. In this family, children are taught values, to share responsibility and to develop lifelong relationships. It forms a solid foundation on which children can build their lives.
The SOS Children's Village
In the SOS Children's Village, parentless and abandoned children find a new home. They grow up in the security of an family: together with siblings, they are lovingly cared for by their SOS Children's Village mother.
The family offers the children the intensive care that traumatised girls and boys need and it can accommodate large groups of siblings.
The aim of every SOS Children's Village is to prepare the children for a life of independence and to accompany them until they can stand on their own two feet. Each child receives schooling and vocational training tailored to their individual needs. In this way, we enable the girls and boys to lead a self-determined, financially independent, and socially integrated life as adults.
Help for families in need
All over the world, SOS Children's Villages help needy families who are acutely threatened with breaking-up. We strengthen families in bitterly poor African rural communities, Indian slums, or in the social hotspots of Eastern European housing estates.
Support with school fees, a sewing machine, chickens for a poultry farm—often it doesn’t take much for a family to break the vicious circle of poverty. Our family strengthening programmes provide solutions for self-help—parents learn to offer their children a perspective through their own efforts.
In this way we are committed to the fight against the global poverty from which children and families particularly suffer. It is often single women who receive support in this way. In developing countries, single mothers are often in a desperate situation: there is neither state aid nor an obligation to pay child support - and many women have never had the chance to go to school or learn a trade.
Family strengthening comprises a wide range of assistance, counselling and educational services aimed at children and parents in need. The goal is always: to gradually empower families to shape their own future.
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