 Christmas is a time of celebration for much of the world, bringing with it a sense of peace and goodwill. As we wait for a window of peace to open in Somalia, SOS co-workers ask you to continue your efforts to provide life saving support for the helpless women and children of that land (December 2008). More... Why would a well qualified doctor with a good job in Europe return to one of the most dangerous places in the world? Dr Abdullahi Hussein from Somalia did exactly that and has no regrets. (September 2008) More... Interview with Helmut Kutin, President of SOS Children's Villages, who visited SOS families in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in April. More... 04/04/2008 - Learning from the experience of the last three months when thousands of people were displaced after elections and many children became separated from their parents, agencies in Kenya have set new guidelines. More... 20/02/2008 - Since violence erupted after disputed elections in Kenya at the end of 2007 the education of many children has been seriously disrupted. More... 18/02/2008 - Over the past few weeks, SOS Children's Villages Kenya has taken in, via the authorities, 66 children who had to flee because of the serious unrest. More... 14/02/2008 - Despite being displaced from his home twice, 17 year old David is determined to pursue his goal of becoming a professional athlete. Living temporarily at the SOS Children's Village Nairobi he can be found every morning and evening training on the football field. More...Ahmed Ibrahim, the Somalia director for SOS Children's Villages, was born and brought up in Mogadishu and lived there until 2004. He is now based in Nairobi but makes frequent visits to Somalia and Somaliland. He was in Mogadishu at the end of December 2007 and in this interview told us what it was like (1 February 2008) More...Statement released by members of Child Line Kenya on the situation of children (30 January 2008) More...A state of emergency was declared in Kenya following the elections at the end of December. The violence between the different ethnic groups has escalated and at least 200 people are thought to have been murdered in the town of Eldoret alone. In this interview Keith Castelino, director of SOS Children's Villages Kenya, talks about the situation in the country and the emergency relief measures that SOS Children's Villages is taking (January 2008). More... 25/01/2008 - 54 children, displaced by the recent post-election violence in Kenya have found a temporary home at the SOS Children's Village Nairobi. Each one has a story to tell. More...27/09/2007 - Former child soldiers from southern Sudan celebrate the end of their studies.
More... It is now a year since peace talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance began in Sudan. A year later little has changed and people are still suffering, especially women and children. Harriet Acan, a co-worker at the SOS Children's Village Gulu, explains. (July 2007)
More...Ahmed Ibrahim is director of SOS Children's Villages Somalia. He recently returned from Mogadishu, where serious fighting and heavy shelling in late April forced thousands of people to flee the city. We asked him about his visit (June 2007).
More... 04/05/2007 - Ahmed Ibrahim, director of SOS Children's Villages Somalia, was brought up in Mogadishu. He remembers the happy days of his childhood, analyses the current situation and forecasts a bleak future, at least in the short term.
More... 04/05/2007 - The civil war in Western Sudan has been dragging on for four years. Two million people have fled the massacres and half of the refugees are children. SOS Children's Villages provides emergency relief in the huge refugee camp Abu Shok near Al Fashir, the capital of north Darfur. Teams from SOS Children's Villages have been providing support to traumatised women and children there since 2004. An SOS co-worker tells us about the current situation in the camp.
More... Northern Uganda is on the way to peace after 20 years of war. An agreement made between the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) and Museveni's government at the end of August is giving the long-suffering Ugandan people good reason to hope for an end to displacement, abduction and mass murder. Two employees from SOS Children's Villages made their way to the area that was hit by Africa's longest conflict. Hilary Atkins describes what has changed since her last visit.
More...On 25 July 2006, SOS Children's Villages started a programme entitled Children's Rights Advocacy, within the framework of the first multi-party national elections which took place on 30 July 2006. The programme concerns around 2,000 street children. The overall objective is to protect them against politicking manipulations during electoral period.
More... In June 2006, SOS Children's Villages inaugurated a psycho-social relief centre as part of the SOS Emergency Relief Programme in the war-torn area of Darfur in Sudan. The new centre, the third of its kind in Darfur, offers medical attention, counselling, therapy and various more services to traumatised children and single mothers at Abu Shok Refugee Camp in Al-Fashir.
More... In front of the entrance to the city of Al Fashir, the capital of the province of Darfur, there is an enormous refugee camp which has doubled in size since November 2004 due to the continued fighting in this western province of Sudan, and the number of internally displaced persons living in Abu Shouk has now reached 80,000 (May 2005).
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