SOS Children Charity News
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.
We can provide news, stories and interviews, source features, pictures and footage on a wide range of topics from around the world. Our strength is that unlike many other UK development organisations, we are based in-situ, permanently. We predominantly (98%) employ local people and receive regular automatic news-updates from our colleagues on the ground. We can also provide statements and analysis on more general topics, such as child's rights, education and equality.
We are a reliable organisation and news source, having been awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize and nominated numerous times for the Nobel Peace Prize. We have an extremely extensive network and are regarded as experts in the field of child protection, family tracing, child trauma and the care of children with no viable family.
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.
We also have some topic related microsites for those interested in researching a particular topic; namely emergency relief work, street child projects including preventative programs, a site detailing some of our work with child soldiers, our SOS Medical and Social Centres, and of course our charity's 192 schools. In addition to these sites we also have a website to convince people to sponsor a child through any charity, and gives a gentle comparison of the differences.
SOS News Alerts
- 27 Oct 2009
SOS families in Mogadishu return home - 19 Oct 2009
Strengthening families in Ghana - 19 Oct 2009
Kenyan Prime Minister attends ceremony for new SOS Children's Village - 19 Oct 2009
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt visit SOS Children Jordan - 15 Oct 2009
Life at the Sri Lanka SOS Care Centre for refugee children - 14 Oct 2009
500th SOS Children's Village opens in Colombia! - 12 Oct 2009
Relief for flood-affected families in the Philippines - 05 Oct 2009
Swaziland: Success in the community - 01 Oct 2009
Quake rocks Indonesia - SOS projects safe - 30 Sep 2009
SOS projects safe as hundreds killed in Guinea protest - 29 Sep 2009
Philippines: Help after typhoon - 28 Sep 2009
Official opening of first SOS Children's Village in Norway - 16 Sep 2009
Emergency aid after floods in Senegal - 09 Sep 2009
Latest news on our children in Somalia - 09 Sep 2009
SOS Children goes the extra mile for children affected by the Indonesia earthquake - 09 Sep 2009
SOS Emergency Relief Programme in Burkina Faso - 04 Sep 2009
SOS Children helps earthquake victims in Indonesia - 01 Sep 2009
Ban Ki-Moon thanks SOS Children for their dedication to children - 21 Aug 2009
Daycare centre for earthquake-affected children in Italy - 19 Aug 2009
Mongolia has a new SOS Children's Village - 06 Aug 2009
SOS Children Mali is granted official recognition - 05 Aug 2009
Tottenham Hotspur visit SOS CV Beijing - 29 Jul 2009
Gomes named SOS Children Ambassador - 16 Jul 2009
SOS families in Mogadishu forced to leave Village - 15 Jul 2009
A new Children's Village in Beijing - 07 Jul 2009
SOS Children not affected by violence in Urumqi, Western China - 30 Jun 2009
Political upheaval in Honduras affects SOS - 29 Jun 2009
Yes, they can! Children researching their lives: a new book from SOS - 26 Jun 2009
Helping child-headed families in Kenya - 25 Jun 2009
Hungry for education: Students in Somalia - 23 Jun 2009
SOS Nursery Teacher released - 15 Jun 2009
Shelter welcomes Pakistani refugee women and children - 12 Jun 2009
Madonna wins child adoption appeal - 10 Jun 2009
From SOS child to lawyer - 10 Jun 2009
Ceremony marks the beginning of a new SOS Children's Village in Peru
Latest News
- 06 Nov 2009
Children taught handwashing to fight cholera in Zambia - 06 Nov 2009
Rescuing Brazil children from lives of violence and drugs - 06 Nov 2009
Women and children killed as starving villagers attacked - 05 Nov 2009
Child refugees’ mental health at risk - 05 Nov 2009
Botswana teens find refuge at club - 04 Nov 2009
Parents accuse Sierra Leone charity of forced adoptions - 04 Nov 2009
Bangladeshi children abused - 03 Nov 2009
Postal Strike with a Silver Lining - 03 Nov 2009
Ukraine closes schools amid flu outbreak - 03 Nov 2009
Plight of Israel’s 783,600 children living in poverty - 03 Nov 2009
US lifts AIDS travel ban - 03 Nov 2009
United Nations pulls support for Congo - 02 Nov 2009
Two Talk : friends share details of SOS Children in a daily photoblog - 02 Nov 2009
Children denied schooling because of poor eyesight - 30 Oct 2009
Madonna weeps at Malawi orphanage - 30 Oct 2009
Help for children after Indonesia quake - 30 Oct 2009
Somalia floods leave 15,000 homeless - 30 Oct 2009
Ethiopia hunger crisis ‘preventable’ - 30 Oct 2009
Slumdog stars told go to school or lose pay - 29 Oct 2009
Birth control advised in Guinea-Bissau
News by topic and archive
You can also view the news by topic or search the news archive for older stories.
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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