A Mother 

The SOS mother is crucial to the well-being of the children. She gives six to eight children her love, attention, and support. These locally hired and well-trained women give children more than just a home; they give them a family.

Brothers & Sisters 

Children of different ages grow up together under the care of their SOS mother. Biological siblings are kept together to establish stable, reliable relationships.

A Home

Each SOS family is given the security of a house they can call home. Children live according to their own culture and religion, enabling them to recognize and express their individual interests and talents.

A Village

Each SOS family is given the security of a house they can call home. Children live according to their own culture and religion, enabling them to recognize and express their individual interests and talents.

Leaving Care

Through the two-year project ‘Leaving Care – An Integrated Approach to Capacity Building of Professionals and Young People’, SOS Children’s Villages, in collaboration with international project partners, aims to train care professionals in how to apply a child rights-based approach in their work with young people. Leaving care and works to strengthen support networks for young care leavers.

SOS Social Centres - Helping communities help themselves

We help families, in particular women and children, living in communities neighbouring our SOS Children's Villages to gradually escape from poverty and to help young people become self-reliant.

SOS Children's Village recognises that it is best for a child to grow up in their own biological family provided that the child's mental or physical health is not at risk. Therefore, SOS Social Centres provide support to parents struggling to cope with life, so that children can continue to grow up within the protective world of their own families.