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New SOS Children’s Village Opened in Brazil

November 16, 2007

We love birthdays of new villages! There is a new SOS Children’s Village in Recife, Brazil. Opening in the Igarassu district, the new village will be home to 130 orphaned children in 14 homes throughout the village.

And do you know how this village came about? It was one of the six villages funded during the 2006 World Cup! The funding for the six villages was two years in the making (starting in September 2004), and the foundation stone for the SOS Children’s Village in Brazil at Recife was laid on December 2005 by FIFA and SOS Children’s Villages ambassador Juninho Pernambucano, a full six months prior to the FIFA World Cup in Germany.

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