World Aids Day: Living Positively With HIV
Two mothers in Zambia share a similar story of recovery from near-death battles with HIV and how they are now living positively with the disease.
Friday December 1, 2017
Sierra Leone: Still Struggling to Recover from Ebola
Children who lost parents during Ebola epidemic are still vulnerable
Wednesday November 29, 2017
Former Child Prostitute: ‘I Don't Want My Old Life Anymore’
Andrea is a 19-year-old high school senior who dreams of becoming a teacher. Just six years ago she was a drug-addicted child prostitute.
Monday November 6, 2017
Macedonian Migrants and Refugees - The Boy from Kobani
It's a scorching hot summer day. Under the shade of a blue tent in the refugee site in Macedonia, a dozen children play with wooden blocks
Thursday November 2, 2017
Bulgarian Migrants and Refugees - New Program for Unaccompanied Children
As SOS Bulgaria begins an emergency response for unaccompanied children, National Director Plamen Stoyanov says: "we have to stand behind these…
Tuesday October 31, 2017
Serbian Migrants and Refugees - A Story of a Syrian Migrant and her Baby
“You take her?” the mother of the baby I was holding asked me on a Monday evening last summer. “Please, what future she has with me?”
Friday October 27, 2017
Italian Migrants and Refugees - Helping Unaccompanied and Separated Children
SOS Italy’s emergency response coordinator talks about the importance of working with adolescents in refugee centres
Greek Migrants and Refugees - Providing a Safe Haven for Unaccompanied Children
This psychologist running a shelter for unaccompanied boys in Athens, understands the challenges for unaccompanied child migrants all too well.
European Migrant Crisis
Over 100,000 refugee and migrant children, of whom more than 33,800 were unaccompanied by parents arrived in Europe in 2016
Janani’s Story - Giving a Home to Orphaned Children in Sri Lanka
Janani, the little girl who once filled the SOS Children’s Village with her cry has turned into a beautiful girl today.
Wednesday October 25, 2017
A Family’s Effort to Get Out of Poverty
With help from the SOS Family Strengthening Program, Catherine, mother of 3 and grandmother of 6, is now able to work and lift her family out of…
Monday October 23, 2017
Bombing Damages SOS Office in Mogadishu
The SOS Children’s Villages Somalia office was damaged and an intern in the office was reported injured during last weekend’s bomb attack in…
Friday October 20, 2017
Photo Essay: 24 Hours with Oscar
This is a snapshot into the life of a child growing up in an SOS family in Costa Rica. Oscar* is eight years old and lives in SOS Village Tres Ríos
Wednesday October 18, 2017
Giving a Girl an Education
At 12 years old Rayowa* wanted to quit school forever. She was in Grade 1 and her classmates were half her age.
Wednesday October 11, 2017
Interview with “Maman Confort”, SOS Mother
“My name is Confort Tchamdja Essoyoméwé. I am 54 and I am an SOS mother at SOS Children’s Village Kara"
Meet SOS Mother Shitaye
Mother Shitaye did not always find it easy to be an SOS mother. A few months into her job in 2015, she said the job was overwhelming
Wednesday September 27, 2017
Life in the Sunflower House
In SOS Children’s Villages San Ignacio, Paraguay, houses have flower names. One of them is Sunflower house. Here, lives Magda with 5 beautiful…
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Action
UN General Debate - “Focusing on People – Striving for Peace and a Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet.”
Friday September 22, 2017
Thomas Bauer Named New President and CEO of SOS Children’s Villages Canada
SOS Children’s Villages Canada is pleased to welcome Thomas Bauer as its new President and CEO
Interim Care Centre Opened in Tartous, Syria
SOS Children’s Villages Syria has opened a new Interim Care Centre in Tartous for 450 unaccompanied and separated children
Wednesday September 13, 2017
"I Believed That Only Bad Things Would Ever Happen to Me"
When I was younger, I believed that only bad things would ever happen to me, that I would always be followed by misfortune
Monday September 11, 2017
Back to School
In spite of this thriving tourism industry, many Dominican children live in poverty. For thousands of children, there will be no back-to-school this…
Tuesday September 5, 2017
All Packed Up and Ready for School!
Every day through the summer, Elianny took out her new school bag and lined up the coloured pencils to make sure none were missing.
The Day Their World Came Crashing Down
One could say that Francis and Samuel were saved by divine intervention. Had they spent the night in their home, they would have been lost.
Tuesday August 29, 2017
A Place Called Home
Mildred, now 14, was only two (2) years old when she was welcomed in SOS Calbayog along with her older and younger brothers
Tuesday August 22, 2017
