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SOS Children's Villages in Chittagong
The plan for the construction of the fourth SOS Children's Village of Bangladesh in the seaport of Chittagong was made after the great flood disaster of 1986, when 50,000 people lost their lives and many children were left orphaned and homeless in several islands of Chittagong province. Chittagong is the country's second largest city.
SOS Children's Village Chittagong was built in 1989 on an area of 1.5 hectares in the middle of Chittagong, only 5 minutes from the city centre. It consists of 12 family houses, the village director's house, an aunts' (family helpers') house, a communal building with an administration area, a mosque and an SOS Kindergarten.
The SOS Social Centre, which also provides medical care, is of great importance to the people living in this area. It offers family-strengthening programmes designed to ensure that children have access to essential services such as adequate nutrition, health services, and education, while their families are taught parenting skills.
The SOS Social Centre runs a child day-care centre for children of working mothers and a training centre, where women from the neighbourhood can acquire useful skills, such as sewing and embroidery. An SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School for up to 238 pupils is situated in the same building, which has also been adapted as a cyclone shelter.
Another two-storey building, which serves as a mosque and as a shelter to the very poor population of the neighbourhood, was erected at the village of Bashkali near Chittagong.
In 1997 and 1998, an SOS Youth Facility and an SOS Vocational Training Centre offering training in carpentry and mechanics were added to the SOS Children's Village facilities in Chittagong.
Our Impact
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SOS Social Centres in Bangladesh 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 | 1489 Beneficiaries |
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SOS Vocational Training Centres in Bangladesh provide young adults from our youth centres, SOS villages and the surrounding community with the skills they will need to secure reliable employment. They provide realistic job opportunities for the future and an avenue to independence. |
1 VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES | 55 Youth and adult students |
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The SOS Children's Village in Bangladesh provides loving homes to orphaned and abandoned children |
1 VILLAGES | 143 Orphaned and Abandoned Children |
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The SOS Youth Facilities in Bangladesh provides youth with a loving environment where they learn to transition into independent living and to expand their education |
1 YOUTH FACILITIES | 55 Youths in our Care |
Our Impact