 SOS Success Story: Cheerful and sturdy-looking, John drives a three-wheel taxi, or tuk tuk, through the crowded streets of Mombasa, Kenya’s large port city on the Indian Ocean. Business is good, he says. He is married and has a five-year-old child.
Read more about his success thanks to his SOS Mother... SOS Success Story: Caroline, now 26, graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Law degree from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, one of the local universities in Kenya. She has been doing an internship at one of the Nairobi law courts, where she has been gaining experience. Read how SOS helped a young women become successful in Kenya... Over 400 children are now receiving education in a new school building built by SOS Children's Villages at Santo 19, outside of Port-au-Prince. This achievement will support families caring for their own children.
Read about SOS's new school located in Haiti... February 24, 2012: On February 5, 2012 the Minister of Social Welfare of Bangladesh dedicated SOS Children’s Village Sylhet to the children of Bangladesh. Sponsor a child in Bangladesh... SOS Story: Twenty-five-year-old Sergio Bruno teaches 120 young people a year the information technology skills they need to find work in Brazil’s IT sector. But Sergio isn’t your average instructor and the program isn’t one he found by chance. Learn how Sergio got involved with IT in Brazil... June 23, 2011: Twenty-six-year-old Charles is in his last year of medical school at the University of Ghana in Accra, that nation’s capital. But any education, let alone medical school, was hardly a given for Charles, who was orphaned at eight. SOS Alum in Ghana has a promising future... March 19, 2010: Michael and his SOS alumni network need $10,000 to create the library-computer lab in a currently rundown building in SOS-Tema that will otherwise be torn down. Funds will be used to purchase books, computers, and furniture, to renovate the crumbling one-room structure, and to staff the new center. Please learn more about The Library and Computer Lab Project today... March 11, 2010: Nathalie Nozile is back in the SOS Children's Village of Santo on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, in the home where she grew up. She really should be studying, with her graduation from the University of Florida only a few months away. You can help SOS Children's Villages in Haiti too... |
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 A bright future beckons Laxmi Rajak who, once stigmatized in her community for being the daughter of a wash man, received an opportunity from SOS Children's Villages to study at SOS Hermann Gmeiner School Sanothimi in Nepal. Today, the teenager is pursuing an International Baccalaureate Diploma in Great Britain. Read more... Sarah Deredza and her young brother and sister were travelling through Zimbabwe with their ailing mother. Their father had died and the family was struggling to survive. Sarah's mother eventually brought the children to Harare in search of relatives who might be able to help them. Read more... Ask 25-year-old Zaoro about his future plans and he will tell you, "... I'll do what every graduate does, I'll start looking for a job!" This former SOS child has lived independently since 2006, and has just finished his studies in chemistry. Everyone is proud of him. He is the first person from SOS Guinea to graduate from university. Read more... Lechesa was an extremely shy child when he arrived at SOS Children's Village Lesotho thirteen years ago. He was most comfortable sitting alone in a corner and only responded to direct questions. Lechesa, now twenty-six years old, is a successful young entrepreneur. The success of his business is largely due to his determination, discipline and hard work. Read more... Today, Marcelino runs a silkscreen printing workshop on the outskirts of Estelí, a neighborhood where most of his neighbors are also former SOS youths. Now thirty-seven years old, Marcelino remembers joining the SOS Children's Village Estelí at the age of four. Read more... Klaus, who grew up at an SOS Children's Villages in Austria, is now a successful advertising executive who gives back to SOS Children's Villages. "I wouldn't be who I was if it wasn't for SOS," he says. Read more of Klaus' story... Tiphanie, a 16-year-old from SOS Children's Village Calais in France, is an exceedingly talented swimmer. Although she didn't qualify for the French Olympic team, she received a very special ticket to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. She will also meet with Chinese youth and participate in a humanitarian project. Read more about Tiphanie's inspiring story... Sam Mbugua is a true testament to the possibilities SOS Children's Villages provides to orphaned and abandoned children around the world. Sam, orphaned at the age of three in Kenya, credits his success to his upbringing in SOS Children's Villages.
Read more... After the death of his father when he was four, Tumanie Mannaeh’s mother struggled to raise five children alone, but extreme poverty threatened them all. Read more... |
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