What is an SOS Childrens Village?
Every SOS Children’s Village offers a permanent home in a family-style environment to children who have lost their parents or can no longer live with them. Ten to twelve boys and girls of different ages live together with their SOS mother in a family house, and eight to fifteen SOS Children’s Village families form a village community. The so-called “four principles” – the SOS mother, the sisters and brothers, the family house and the SOS Children’s Village – form the basis and the framework of the concept of our work at the SOS Children’s Villages. The foremost of these principles is the mother, or mother-centered care.
