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SOS Children's Villages in Nuwara-Eliya
Sri Lanka's second SOS Children's Village is located at Nuwara-Eliya in the central hill region, at an altitude of 2,000 m. The first children were admitted in 1984. Due to its high altitude, the SOS Children's Village enjoys a particularly cool climate, and the town of the same name is one of the island's favourite holiday resorts. That is why the children from the SOS Children's Village Piliyandala often spend their holidays at the holiday camp in Nuwara-Eliya.
SOS Children's Village Nuwara Eliya consists of ten family houses, a community house and the necessary administrative buildings. Older youths from the SOS Children's Village normally move to the SOS Youth Facility when they start a vocational training course or go on to higher education in order to learn to shoulder responsibility and to start making their own decisions.
The SOS Social Centre and the SOS Kindergarten are open to the population of the neighbourhood. At the kindergarten, up to 60 children can be taught in four group rooms. The SOS Social Centre provides medical care, counselling and crafts classes. It also coordinates the local family strengthening programmes. Next to the SOS Children's Village, there is a home for retired SOS mothers.
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The SOS Kindergarten in Sri Lanka are a fundamental building block for the early development needs including, intellectual and social skills for children. |
1 KINDERGARTENS | 89 Kindergarten students |
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SOS Social Centres in Sri Lanka 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 | 586 Beneficiaries |
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The SOS Children's Village in Sri Lanka provides loving homes to orphaned and abandoned children |
1 VILLAGES | 98 Orphaned and Abandoned Children |
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The SOS Youth Facilities in Sri Lanka provides youth with a loving environment where they learn to transition into independent living and to expand their education |
1 YOUTH FACILITIES | 37 Youths in our Care |
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