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SOS Children’s Villages Strive to Prevent Child Abandonment

June 28, 2007

SOS Children’s Villages aim to prevent child abandonment through family strengthening programs in addition to providing loving homes for orphaned and abandoned children.  The SOS Villages’ Social Center aid programs have proven to strengthen the neighborhood families on a long term basis by assisting them in rising above the poverty level while imparting valuable skills and knowledge.

Each family strengthening aid program offers services such as teaching women skills they need to find employment, providing necessary financial assistance, creating community support systems, implementing programs to promote literacy, and offering micro credits for small business start ups, among other related services, all of which help provide women and families with limited opportunity the strength to keep their families together.

Hope for Abandoned Children
Stories like that of Samah’s illustrate the importance of Social Centers and their family strengthening programs in the SOS Children’s Villages.  While working hard to nourish previously abandoned children is important, eliminating future abandonment of children by providing concrete family environments is imperative.  SOS Children’s Villages strive to not only fight the problem of orphan children, but also the derivatives of the problem, which the family strengthening programs intend to dissolve.

All charitable donations go to a family or child’s aid.  With your support, SOS Children’s Villages can work to not only provide safety to abandoned children, but also towards the prevention of abandonment throughout the world.

Topics: Child Abandonment |