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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007With the 2008 African Cup of Nations, the biggest soccer tournament in Africa until the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, being staged in Ghana, it made sense for the local SOS Children’s Village to work with the tournament to highlight the work and beliefs of the organization. As allafrica.com reported:
Dubbed, “Football for Peace and […]
Sporting Support for SOS Childrens Villages
Thursday, September 13th, 2007London based English premier league soccer team, Tottenham Hotspurs, today released their new newsletter - “Good Foundations” - which details the work that they do in their community, and around the world. In this magazine they detail their work with youth projects, and specifically talk about their
ground-breaking partnership with SOS Children’s Villages International in South […]
Resilient Villages - SOS Children’s Village in Mogadishu
Monday, August 27th, 2007Though 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, 2007SOS 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, 2007After 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 […]
An Orphaned Girl’s Cry Against AIDS
Friday, August 10th, 2007With 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, 2007Orphans 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 […]
Children’s Villages Rescues Abandoned Child
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Escaping a Living Death
”It was like he was waiting to die”. Four year old John was found abandoned and alone in his brother’s house in the poorest area of Western Uganda. We learned later that John had been abandoned as a child by his mother, and his brother was all he had left. Now a […]
SOS Childrens Villages Saves Child Victimized by Ugandan Civil War
Friday, July 13th, 2007At the age of twelve, Otto was an innocent victim of the 20-year civil war in Uganda and suffered terrible facial wounds from a bullet. Today, thanks to SOS Children’s Villages and the generosity of medical personnel, Otto is regaining his lost childhood.
To see 16-year-old Otto bent over a desk with his teacher going over […]
