Archive for August, 2007

Peru Earthquake Disaster Relief - SOS Children’s Villages Responds

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Peru was hit hard on August 15, by an earthquake whose magnitude was 8.0 on the Richter Scale. Since then, there have been nearly 20 aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from 4.5 to 6.3.
SOS Children’s Villages was quick to respond, and has staff in the areas. Two relief programs have been set up in the Las […]

Resilient Villages - SOS Children’s Village in Mogadishu

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Though I am old enough to remember the early 1990’s when Somalia was in the news on a daily basis, I did not remember that the largest city in Somalia is Mogadishu.

Since becoming a supporter of SOS Children’s Village, I have come to be concerned about the area, and each time news comes through about […]

Back to school campaign focused on HIV/AIDS orphans

Friday, August 24th, 2007

SOS children’s Villages ‘Back to School’ campaign seeks to provide for orphaned children through providing some daily lives necessities and scholarships for them to attend schools. In Zimbabwe 1 in 5 children is said to be an orphan of HIV/AIDS, and thousands of Zimbabweans die daily, causing it to be host to the highest number […]

Orphaned siblings work together

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

After the loss of both his parents to HIV/AIDS in 2004, Georgio had to step up and become the head of the household at eighteen and start to care for his four siblings in their native home of Maputo, the capitol of Mozambique. Georgio works hard enough to insure that his siblings have enough to […]

SOS Children’s Villages seeks to aid AIDS orphans in Africa

Friday, August 17th, 2007

“The scale of the AIDS pandemic is shocking. It is unimaginable. That is precisely why we owe it to each and every one of the million AIDS orphans to help them with all our strength where we can. We must not close our eyes to this misery,” stated the president of SOS Children’s Villages Helmut […]

If I ran SOS Children’s Village

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

SOS children speak up on how they’d run SOS Children’s Villages
SOS Children’s Villages excels in various forms of caring for abandoned and orphaned children, however what makes the non profit even more successful is the amount of time that is geared towards listening to its children. With such attention geared to the children, they “often […]

An Orphaned Girl’s Cry Against AIDS

Friday, August 10th, 2007

With the aids epidemic heartily and deeply rooted in Africa, tearing away at its peoples lives, many young people are left in despair on what to do. It rips through families and villages leaving behind countless orphans for Mother Earth to care for. Seventeen year old Adama whom attends SOS Hermann Gmeiner School Bakoteh in […]

Aids orphans of Africa and the SOS Children’s Villages response

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Orphans to reach 18 million by 2010
Today, there are 13 million children who have become orphans due to HIV/AIDS, 90% of which live in Africa. Furthermore in sub-Saharan Africa, one in six children has become orphaned because of HIV/AIDS, and that figure is expected to reach 1 in 3 by the year 2010. SOS Children’s […]

Caring for Orphans and Abandoned children in a war zone

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

On June 4th, 2007, clashes between the Lebanese Army and the Jund al-Sham militant group in Sidon, Lebanon, forced abandoned and orphaned children from SOS Children’s Village Sferai and youngsters from SOS youth homes in a suburb of Saida to remain in the relative safety of their homes.
SOS Children’s Village Sferai was affected by the […]