SOS
Children's Villages in The East African Region
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Our
Mission
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We
build families for children in need...
We work for children who are orphaned, abandoned or whose families
are unable to care for them.
We give these children the opportunity to build lasting relationships
within a family. Our family approach in the SOS Children‘s Village
is based on four principles: Each child needs a mother, and grows
up most naturally with brothers and sisters, in their own house,
within a supportive village environment.
We help them shape
their own futures...
We help children to recognise and express their individual abilities,
interests and talents.
We ensure that children receive the education and skills training
they need to be successful and contributing members of society.
We share in the
development of their communities...
We share in community life and respond to the social development
needs of society‘s most vulnerable children and young people.
We establish facilities and programmes that aim to strengthen families
and prevent the abandonment of children. We join hands with community
members to provide education and health care, and respond to emergencies. |
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| Strategic
Initiatives |
Eight
Strategic Initiatives provide a common direction for the worldwide
organisation from 2003 – 2008. The initiatives have been established
within the philosophical frame of our Mission Statement – Who We Are.
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| The
SOS Facilities |
Our
primary goal of providing children and youngsters with individual
long-term support to enable them to achieve self –reliance is achieved
through our SOS Children’s Villages and SOS Youth Facilities. A further
goal of SOS Children’s Villages is to help improve the quality of
life I the communities in which their facilities are located. For
that reason, SOS Children’s Villages also operates a variety of educational,
social and medical programmes targeted above all at local children
and youngsters and their families. These facilities serve hundreds
of thousands of needy people.
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the SOS Facilities in Detail... |
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| Our
Work in East Africa •
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SOS Children’s
Villages, East Africa operates 60 running projects, including 13 SOS
Children’s Villages. A total of 174,951 people benefit in some way
from SOS facilities across the region, including 2,126 children living
in our SOS Children’s Village or SOS Youth Home facilities.
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| About
the Regional Office |
Specific
Areas of Responsibility for the Regional Office of East Africa:
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Supporting the development of strong, self-governed (and ultimately
financially self-supporting) national associations, which operate
in compliance with SOS-KDI standards, international statutes, and
the organizations Vision Mission Values.
2. Monitoring and supporting the delivery of high
quality children’s programmes ensuring established standards of
care and education are met.
3. Initiating and overseeing the construction of
new SOS projects and facilities within the Region, including conducting
feasibility studies, securing the necessary finances from overseas
supporting associations, and supervising the planning and construction
process. On completion, new facilities are handed over to the local
SOS Association, which then assumes responsibility for their on-going
operation.
4. Channeling financial support from the overseas
funding associations to the local SOS associations, and monitoring
and controlling all financial activity within the local associations
to ensure compliance with international standards of accountability.
5. Human Resource Development and capacity building,
including the establishment of training facilities and resources,
and the training and development of national co-workers and Boards.
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| Profile
on Key Figures of SOS Children's Villages |
| HERMANN
GMEINER: |
Founder
of SOS Children’s Villages Hermann Gmeiner was born in 1919 in Austria.
Confronted with the suffering of so many orphaned and homeless children
after the Second World War, and convinced that help cannot be effective
where a child has a no home, he established the first SOS Children’s
Villages in Austria in 1949. His SOS Children’s Village idea soon
spread to every continent as a proven childcare concept for all
peoples. Hermann Gmeiner died in Austria in 1986. |
| HELMUT
KUTIN: |
President
of SOS Children’s Villages Helmut Kutin was admitted to SOS Children’s
Village Imst, Austria at the age of 12. He worked as the organizations
representative for Asia, and later as the Deputy Secretary General;
he played a key role in the growth of SOS Children’s Villages. In
1985 he was elected President and confirmed in office in 1988, 1993,
1998
and again in 2003. |
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