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Swedish Crime Writer Builds a New SOS Village

October 18, 2007

Award winning Swedish crime fiction writer Henning Mankell, Ingmar Bergman’s son-in-law, has spent the better part of 20 years calling the African country of Mozambique his home. On October 16th he announced that he was donating $2.3 million for the construction of a new SOS Children’s Village, which would house 150 orphaned and abandoned children, and would also include a kindergarten and new school for the children.

“There is a need for thousands of SOS Children’s Villages in Mozambique. I have the possibility to build one, so I am doing it,”

The future children of the village that will bear your name, Mr Mankell, thank you.

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