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SOS Children's Villages in Maseru
The SOS Children's Village Maseru is situated on the slopes of a small hill amongst the semi-urban settlement of Lithabaneng, with a good view of the surrounding region.
There is plenty of space in the SOS Children's Village, where the children can play and run around. The neighbourhood is predominately composed of dwellings made of concrete blocks or mud with tin roofs, and many are in a very poor state.
The SOS Children's Village Maseru comprises ten family houses, a multi-purpose hall, houses for the SOS aunts (who support the SOS mothers and take care of the children when the mothers are on leave) and the village director, an administration and service area as well as farm land to cultivate fruits and vegetables.
The adjoining SOS Kindergarten has a capacity to take in up to 125 children and consists of five group rooms, a kitchen and a playground. Primary school education can be offered to 490 children at the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School. It comprises fourteen classrooms and three vocational training rooms for home economics, arts and crafts and agriculture.
The SOS Medical Centre provides medical treatment to up to 1,000 patients per month. As the children from the neighbourhood can also enjoy the friendly and open atmosphere of the SOS Kindergarten and the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School, and their injuries and diseases are also treated in the SOS Medical Centre, the people are very enthusiastic about the commitment of SOS Children's Villages in this region, and it will hopefully improve the living conditions of many people.
In order to reach even more children in need an SOS Social Centre offering community-based child care and support programmes to assist child or grandparent headed families was opened. The SOS Social Centre offers material and medical support, education and counselling as well as HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns.
An SOS Youth Facility for up to 24 youngsters also belongs to the SOS Children's Village Maseru, where youths can stay during vocational training or further education and prepare themselves for an independent life.
Our Impact
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The SOS Kindergarten in Lesotho are a fundamental building block for the early development needs including, intellectual and social skills for children. |
1 KINDERGARTENS | 132 Kindergarten students |
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SOS Medical Centres in Lesotho 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 | 3338 Patients |
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SOS Social Centres in Lesotho 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 | 540 Beneficiaries |
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The SOS Children's Village in Lesotho provides loving homes to orphaned and abandoned children |
1 VILLAGES | 80 Orphaned and Abandoned Children |
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The SOS Youth Facilities in Lesotho provides youth with a loving environment where they learn to transition into independent living and to expand their education |
1 YOUTH FACILITIES | 79 Youths in our Care |
Our Impact