World Orphan Week
World Orphan Week
14 – 20 February 2011 is World Orphan Week
What is World Orphan Week?
World Orphan Week began in the UK in 2005. During World Orphan Week, SOS Children develops awareness of the needs of orphaned and abandoned children around the world.
At SOS Children we ask groups and individuals to work with us to raise awareness of the work that we do creating loving homes for orphaned and abandoned children and supporting families in need of help.
How we give children a family
SOS Children provides new family homes for children who have lost their parents or whose parents are unable to care for them. They are nurtured by a full-time SOS mother and grow up as part of a family with other orphaned and abandoned children. Regardless of race, culture or religion, children are given the love and security they need for a thriving childhood. Natural siblings are never separated, but stay together within one family.
Our SOS family homes are clustered together in a purpose-built Village. From here, we offer help to the wider community. Where there is no adequate medical care, we provide it, where there is no school we build one, where there are vulnerable families nearby (such as child-headed families) we support them. Keeping families together ensures fewer children are abandoned and reduces the number in need of long-term care.
You can help us to give a child a family for life by sponsoring a child. Help us achieve our goal for World Orphan Week — to give another 1,000 orphaned children like Ayesha and Saira a new family for life. Whether you’re an individual or a group, a school, a company, you can help us to do this. Here are some ideas. For more information see Taking Part:
- Sponsor a child or a village
- Make a donation
- Hold a fundraising event
- See our A-Z of fundraising ideas
- Cook a meal for your friends and ask them to make a donation. See our Food for Friends website www.foodforfriends.uk.net
- Raise awareness:
- Tell your friends about World Orphan Week www.soschildren.org/wow
- Add one of our footers to your email
- Send an SOS e-card
- Buy Alternative Gifts for your friends and family
- Mention us on your Facebook page and other social networks - here is how
- If you have a webpage, add a link to our website www.soschildren.org/wow
How sponsorship with SOS Children works
All of your money is paid, without deductions, into a village budget from which all your child’s needs are met (education, home, food, medical care etc). In addition to a sponsorship, you can also make small gifts into a personal account for your child to receive on independence. We can guarantee that 100% of your donation goes directly to the children. We cover all our admin and fundraising costs from other sources, such as by the tax we recover from Gift Aid. We fundraise using the internet, not direct mail, to keep our costs low.
You will receive a photo of your sponsored child along with a sponsorship pack, and regular updates about their progress.
For more information, contact us:
Email: wow@soschildren.org
Tel: 01223 365 589
Terrington House
13-15 Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 1NL
Registered Charity No: 1069204
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