Arts class (Photo: B. Dimbleby)
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The SOS Kindergarten consists of five group rooms and a playground and offers pre-school education to up to 125 children. An SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School was established in 1999. It consists of fourteen classrooms, three laboratories, a library and a computer room and has a capacity of up to 490 pupils.
Children at the doctor's (Photo: SOS Archives)
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In order to meet the needs of the growing number of youths who had outgrown the SOS Children's Village, an SOS Youth Facility was established in 2001; there up to 20 youths can stay during higher education or vocational training and prepare for their independent lives.
Since 2002, an SOS Social Centre has been co-ordinating an HIV/AIDS community-based child care and support programme. Families affected by HIV/AIDS receive material and medical support, education and counselling, and they are supported with income-generating activities. Moreover, HIV/AIDS awareness is raised and prevention campaigns are organised.