What we do
Our mission
We build families for children in need.
We help them shape their futures.
We share in the development of their communities.
In more than 130 countries, SOS Children’s Villages provides children and young people without parental care, or at risk of losing it, with a caring, loving and secure family environment.
Every SOS Children‘s Village is a place that children and young people without parental care, or at risk of losing it, can call home: children live as part of their own culture and religion in a place where their needs for food, health, shelter and education are met.
The SOS mother is essential to the life of children and young people without parental care in our SOS Villages. She provides constant care, love and support to five to ten children. These women are locally hired and extensively trained, giving children more than a place to live; they provide a family.
SOS Children‘s Villages keeps families together through our Family Strengthening Programs, which help parents and their communities to protect and care for their children. Skills training and community development work help parents to become self-sufficient and prevent child abandonment.
SOS Children’s Villages offers other programs that support families and children in need. And during times of global emergencies, we support those most affected.
Through SOS Children‘s Villages, kids who were alone and abandoned, or at risk of losing their families, have an opportunity to grow up safe and become self sufficient, better citizens and better parents. That leads to positive, lasting social change.