SOS Children Charity News
Latest charity news from around the world including third party news stories for those interested in child welfare and news from SOS Children projects worldwide
SOS Children operates projects for children in 124 countries, specialising in giving children the chance of a family childhood. The news articles listed below are a mixture of our own news from around the world and articles contracted from third parties which we think are relevant to our work.
If you would like more information about our media resources please click Press Resources under charity news on the main menu.If you would like more information about SOS Children then useful places to look are our charity facts section, including a short pdf download called SOS Children in a nutshell. If you are interested in visiting our projects around the world then you should contact elizabeth@soschildren.org . We have considerable video footage and photographic material from around the world.
You can also search the news archive for older stories.
SOS Children's Villages is a member of AlertNet, a humanitarian news network which aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe, www.alertnet.org
Recent SOS News
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children: Charity gets much needed boost
Sep 02, 2010 01:25 AM
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children: Charity gets much needed boost
The Global Conspiracy Project is launched to raise funds for SOS Children
Aug 31, 2010 01:35 PM
The Global Conspiracy Project is launched to raise funds for SOS Children
Charity calls for ban on aggressive fundraising
Aug 27, 2010 10:40 AM
Editorial about chuggers by Meryl Davies, Director of Fundraising
First batch of SOS food parcels delivered in Pakistan
Aug 24, 2010 11:50 AM
The first batch of SOS food pacakges were dispatched at the weekend. Two trucks containing 500 food Packages, or 80,000 meals, have been sent to Mardan in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the other to Dera Ghazi Khan in south Punjab. The next 500 packages will be sent tomorrow.
Pakistan Flood Appeal
Aug 23, 2010 03:45 PM
Severe flooding in Pakistan has left over three million people in need of urgent help including one and a half million children. SOS Children has eight Villages in the country and is on the ground, ready to help those who are most vulnerable. With your help we are aiming to provide 100,000 food packages for the people of Pakistan
SOS Children launches Christmas Range 2010
Aug 23, 2010 03:00 PM
Launch of the SOS Children Christmas range for 2010, providing help for orphaned and abandoned children around the world this Christmas and beyond.
SOS Children expand Emergency Relief in Pakistan
Aug 20, 2010 01:50 PM
SOS Children have expanded Emergency Relief to provide food parcels, medicaments and tents
Helping Pakistan flood children
Aug 19, 2010 10:50 AM
A look at the various ways that you can help children and their families in Pakistan through SOS Children
SOS Pakistan prepare to send food parcels
Aug 18, 2010 09:50 AM
Latest update from the Pakistan flooding appeal. SOS Pakistan is preparing to send food packages to children in affected areas. 18 August 2010.
News from the SOS Village Leh-Ladakh, India
Aug 18, 2010 09:30 AM
We have just received this letter from Mr Tsewang Yeshi, the President of SOS Children's Village's for Tibetans. He tells us about the current situation of our Children's Village in Leh-Ladakh, which is situated on the river Indus, and very near to areas affected by flooding. The Village is 7 km from the town of Leh in the Ladakh region of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He explains how the Village is reaching out to those in the community who have been affected ...
Remember a Charity
Aug 18, 2010 07:00 AM
An editorial sharing our reflections again on whether we should join Remember a Charity
Pakistan, floods, terrorism, extremism and prejudice
Aug 16, 2010 06:40 PM
An editorial about Pakistan and our attitudes towards it
Floods in Pakistan and northern India
Aug 09, 2010 04:25 PM
All children, co-workers and facilities of SOS Children's Villages in Pakistan and northern India are unaffected by the devastating floods in the region. SOS Children's Villages Pakistan has offered its assistance to the government with focus on temporary shelter for unaccompanied children.
SOS Children opens crisis centre for women in Belarus
Aug 06, 2010 12:23 PM
The recently opened SOS Children's Village Mogilev has an unusually significant impact as it also features the country's first shelter for women offering long-term protection from domestic violence. Tatiana Burova of SOS Children's Villages Belarus explains the centre's work.
Spurs fans help raise thousands for SOS Children
Aug 05, 2010 04:44 PM
Spurs fans help raise thousands for SOS Children
Haiti Earthquake Update: SOS worker shares her impressions
Aug 04, 2010 12:54 PM
Yolanda van den Broek, a psychosocial consultant currently in Haiti for SOS Children's Villages, shares her impressions of Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien seven months after the earthquake that razed the capital and killed hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants
Haiti Earthquake Update: August 2010
Aug 04, 2010 10:40 AM
An update on the situation of SOS Children's Villages in Haiti, seven months on from the earthquake that brought destruction to thousands of families and their children
Pakistan hit by major floods
Aug 02, 2010 12:55 PM
Pakistan has been hit by major flooding. Many have died or been left stranded by the floods, which could worsen as more rain is forecast.
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