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SOS Children's Villages in Kayonza
SOS Children's Village Kayonza has been built on a plot of land of about four-and-half hectares.
It comprises twelve family houses to take in 120 children. In addition to the family houses, there is an administration building, a multi-purpose room, a village director's house and a house for the SOS aunts (SOS mothers in training or family helpers supporting SOS mothers).
SOS Children's Village Kayonza also has a kindergarten and a primary school. Both are on the premises of the village and have been operational since the opening of the SOS Children’s Village.
The kindergarten consists of three classrooms with a capacity to serve 75 children. The kindergarten also has an administration room, multi-purpose rooms, a half-covered Porch and a playground. Up to 210 children attend classes at the Hermann Gmeiner Primary School, which has six classrooms, administrative rooms, a canteen and other multi-purpose rooms.
Both children from the SOS Children's Village and from the neighbouring communities attend both schools.
An SOS Medical Centre has been established with the aim of providing medical care and informing local people about prevention. The centre has one consultation room, one for medical treatment, two isolation rooms, one anaesthetic room, a laboratory, a pharmacy, a sterilisation room and offices for the social workers and administration staff.
Initiated by the national office of SOS Children's Villages Rwanda, an SOS Social Centre helps people in the city of Kayonza and the neighbourhood in strengthening the families fighting poverty. The centre offers counselling to parents on raising and the educating children, nutrition, health and career guidance.
Given that the goal is about working within the community and having the locals participate, this program is run in co-operation with the local authorities.
Our Impact
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The SOS Kindergarten in Rwanda are a fundamental building block for the early development needs including, intellectual and social skills for children. |
1 KINDERGARTENS | 90 Kindergarten students |
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SOS Medical Centres in Rwanda 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 | 27411 Patients |
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SOS Social Centres in Rwanda 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. |
4 SOCIAL CENTRES | 1500 Beneficiaries |
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The SOS Children's Village in Rwanda provides loving homes to orphaned and abandoned children |
1 VILLAGES | 118 Orphaned and Abandoned Children |
Our Impact