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SOS Children's Villages in N'Djamena
SOS Children's Village N'Djamena is situated out of the town of the same name, the capital of Tchad, which has more than 530,000 inhabitants.
The SOS Children's Village has twelve family houses, the director's house, a building for the SOS aunts (who provide valuable support for current SOS mothers as well as being SOS mothers in training), a house where the organization's employees can be accommodated during their various training courses, an administration area, a workshop and a multi-purpose hall (for the village's various activities). It opened in March 2005 and can house up to 120 children.
An SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School and an SOS Kindergarten were built on the grounds of the SOS Children's Village which are attended by children from the village as well as from neighbouring areas. The primary school and the kindergarten were opened at the same time as the village in March 2005.
The primary school has a capacity for 210 children. It has six classrooms, an administrative unit, a workshop, a kitchen with a canteen and a teachers' staff room. The kindergarten has two large classrooms, a kitchen, and an office for the director and a room for the caregivers and teachers; it can offer places to some 50 children.
The grounds of the village also have an SOS Medical Centre, with a view to offering regular medical check-ups or promoting various preventative policies on a local level. It has a room for doctors, a room for nurses, an examination room, an inpatient room, a dispensary, an analysis laboratory and a secretariat. It can treat up to 5,500 patients a year.
Our Impact
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The SOS Kindergarten in Chad are a fundamental building block for the early development needs including, intellectual and social skills for children. |
1 KINDERGARTENS | 83 Kindergarten students |
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SOS Medical Centres in Chad provide quality health care to the children in our care, our staff, our staffís family as well as people in the surrounding community. |
1 MEDICAL CENTRES | 11784 Patients |
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SOS Social Centres in Chad aim is to help families, in particular women and children, living in communities neighbouring the SOS Children's Villages to gradually escape from poverty, and to help young people become self-reliant. |
2 SOCIAL CENTRES | 684 Beneficiaries |
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The SOS Children's Village in Chad provides loving homes to orphaned and abandoned children |
1 VILLAGES | 119 Orphaned and Abandoned Children |
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The SOS Youth Facilities in Chad provides youth with a loving environment where they learn to transition into independent living and to expand their education |
1 YOUTH FACILITIES | 35 Youths in our Care |
Our Impact