 September 1, 2010: Even before Pakistan’s tragic floods, the nation’s child malnutrition rates were high: 36 percent of children were underweight and 44 percent faced stunted growth. SOS Children’s Villages, on the ground in Pakistan for more than three decades, is taking action to help such vulnerable children. You can help SOS around the world... August 11, 2010: The National Disaster Management Authority of Pakistan (NDMA) reports that as many as 12 million people have been affected by the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history. The Government of Pakistan estimates that one million people have been displaced. Both NDMA and the United Nations also report that at least 1,600 people have died; more than half of those deaths in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) alone. The NDMA says about 700,000 homes are believed to have been damaged or destroyed across Pakistan. You can help children and families in Pakistan... August 3, 2010: With a presence in Belarus since it opened the first SOS Children’s Village in that country in 1995, SOS has just passed a new milestone. Its brand new Children's Village in Mogilev, in northeastern Belarus, features the country's first women’s shelter that offers long-term protection from domestic violence. You can help women and children in Belarus... July 27, 2010: The Indian government has introduced a $35 computer whose price, it says, will eventually drop to $10, according to CNN. SOS Children’s Villages has been in India for forty years educating the boys and girls without parental care who live inside its Villages. SOS schools also teach local children who would otherwise remain illiterate. Help SOS help Indian children without families to turn to... July 20, 2010: Half a year after Haiti’s terrible earthquake of January 12, the country’s needs remain dire. The quake left some 250,000 people dead, leaving thousands of children without parental care. With 3 million people affected and more than 1 million still homeless, tent cities are everywhere. Reconstruction is slow and, in some areas, nonexistent. Learn how you can help children and families in Haiti... |