Video: Motherhood
Khun Krongtip has raised 34 children over the past 20 years and continues to be the loving, caring mother to all of them. Watch her story.
Friday November 21, 2014
Ebola Emergency Update - November 2014
Over the past eight months, the Ebola outbreak has heavily affected Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and continues to threaten the social, political…
Thursday November 20, 2014
Educating students through technology in Tanzania
At the SOS School in Arusha, Tanzania, everybody benefits from our Tanzania's ICT for Development project a program that provides computer training
Tuesday November 18, 2014
What Can I Do? Making an Impact at Home - #putchildrenfirst
Selling dolls. Racing dragonboats. Drawing pictures. There are endless ways to have fun and help children in need
Friday November 14, 2014
A Life Turned Around: Lucia’s Story - #putchildrenfirst
Lucia is only ten, but she spent most of her life looking after her alcoholic parents until an SOS Children’s Village was built in her region and…
Wednesday November 12, 2014
Hope provided to orphaned children in the Philippines
After his parents and older brother were swept away by Typhoon Haiyan, Nico Melo has been living as an orphan under his grandmother’s care.
SOS Family Strengthening Program Makes a Difference for Ramani - #putchildrenfirst
Coming from a lower social class, Ramani found it extremely difficult to meet the needs of her children.
Monday November 10, 2014
Everyone can help to Put Children First! - #putchildrenfirst
With all of the global issues that we have been exploring over the last seven weeks, it can be easy to get discouraged
SOS Children in Gaza Carry Unavoidable Fears - #putchildrenfirst
The children of the Gaza Strip and of Israel have grown up with the constant threat of violence and learned to live with it
Friday November 7, 2014
The Philippines: One Year After Super Typhoon Haiyan
SOS Children’s Villages has helped transform the lives for hundreds of women, children and families in Tacloban, Philippines after Super Typhoon…
Thursday November 6, 2014
Virginia’s New Start - #putchildrenfirst
Virginia was fourteen years old when she became pregnant with her first child. She was forced to marry the child’s father, who turned out to be…
Wednesday November 5, 2014
Displaced in your own country - #putchildrenfirst
In the village of Sakoura in central Mali, Gnorguel Gambi and his family received nineteen unexpected houseguests
Monday November 3, 2014
Every child deserves safety: Week Seven’s topic - #putchildrenfirst
War. Natural disasters. Exploitation. Violence. As we will explore this week for Put Children First, there are many things that threaten children’s…
Freedom for Reena, Manju and Suniti - #putchildrenfirst
Reena, a seventeen-year-old Indian girl, had never gone to school until she came to SOS at twelve, after her mother died and her father re-married
Friday October 31, 2014
SOS Children's Villages Now Accepting Donations for Ebola Emergency Program
Your donation to SOS Children’s Villages Ebola Emergency Program will go toward working with orphaned or unaccompanied children and funding medical…
Wednesday October 29, 2014
Ebola Threatens Education in West Africa
As the threat of Ebola continues to grow, the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have temporarily closed their schools.
Rebuilding lives after the Tsunami - #putchildrenfirst
"We hurriedly left our home and ran to save our lives." The waves swept over their house, and Chantira was the only one from her family left alive.
Ebola: Leaving Children Abandoned in West Africa
SOS Children’s Villages is offering help to orphaned and abandoned children who have lost a parent to Ebola.
Tuesday October 28, 2014
Ebola: Medical Update
SOS Children’s Villages is continuing to implement strict precautionary measures to ensure all of our children stay safe from Ebola.
Finding strength after the Rwandan Genocide - #putchildrenfirst
Living in an SOS family helped not only orphaned children such as Agnes, but also adults like Bernadette Kabanyana and her SOS daughter Mathilde…
Monday October 27, 2014
Week Six of Put Children First campaign highlights struggles of orphaned children - #putchildrenfirst
Caring for the vulnerable, orphaned, and abandoned children of the world is the main focus of SOS Children’s Villages, and this week’s theme
Medical expertise makes all the difference for young mothers - #putchildrenfirst
Few pregnant women in Zanzibar take a prenatal ultrasound, due to lack of awareness and poor healthcare services - a gap, according to the government…
Wednesday October 22, 2014
Hermann Gmeiner Award 2014: Maya and Deepak Share Award Spotlight in Innsbruck
A lecturer from India and an architect from Nepal shared the spotlight in Innsbruck on 17 October when they were awarded SOS Children’s Villages…
Tuesday October 21, 2014
Sapalo and his mother find reason to smile - #putchildrenfirst
By the time Sapalo was three, his father had passed away and his mother was frequently sick and very frail. Sapalo himself was often ill, and had not…
Monday October 20, 2014
Help a mother, help her children: why maternal health is Week Five’s topic - #putchildrenfirst
Maternal health is crucial for the well-being of a child because, without a mother, the life of a child is at risk