SOS Children
This is the UK charity homepage of SOS Children, the world's largest orphan and abandoned children's charity. Child sponsors and donors worldwide provide a new family and home for more than 78,000 children in 500 unique Children's Villages in 124 countries. Our supporters also help a million children and their families through SOS community outreach programmes.
SOS Children: Offering real child sponsorship
We offer real child sponsorship. Our sponsors and donors help children whose parents are not there for them. They may be AIDS orphans, street children, child soldiers or children orphaned by war, poverty or natural disasters. We give these children a mother and a family in a home within an SOS Children's Village. Donations pay to build the Villages and run them until child sponsors cover the running costs. Where family life is at risk (for example where parents in Africa have AIDS), we run programmes to help strengthen them and keep them together.
For more information, please click here to know what the SOS Children's Villages do and how they operate
SOS Children in a nutshell
SOS Children has villages and community projects all around the world, helping some of the world’s most vulnerable children.
We give children who have no one else to turn to the comfort and security of a new family and home in one of our SOS Children’s Villages. Regardless of race, religion or culture, children are given a new SOS mother, brothers and sisters and a home, where they can stay until they are old enough to lead their own independent lives. To help them achieve this, we provide these children and young people with the education, skills and knowledge they need to become contributing members of society.
By working with local communities, offering support to families through child care provision, counselling, medical advice and vocational skills as well as support for families that have been affected by illness or disease, our aim is to prevent the causes of child abandonment.
In a nutshell, SOS Children
- works in 124 countries around the world
- runs 500 SOS Children’s Villages and 396 Youth Homes
- cares for more than 78,000 children
- provides over 100,000 children with an education in its nurseries, primary and secondary schools
- supports more than 1 million vulnerable children and their families through medical centres, social centres, vocational training schemes and emergency relief efforts
