 SOS Story: Unemployment, extreme poverty, violence in the home, and a general lack of education towards basic parenting skills -- these are just a few of the issues that make parenting difficult around the world. Read about Bosnia and Herzegovina... SOS Story: Baby Evelyne spent the first three months of life behind bars in a Burundi prison. When her incarcerated mother died, Evelyne was sent to her grandmother, who lived in a camp for internally displaced people. Life there was harsh. Read more about Evelyne's life in Burundi... SOS Story: Moussa, 11 years old, has been living at SOS Children's Village Abobo-Gare in the Ivory Coast since his father died in 2000. This year, he is in the 6th grade, which is the last year in primary education. Moussa tells us about his first day of school... 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... SOS Story: Mubanga Chilemba, a social worker for SOS Social Center Lusaka, relates the story of Lanny, one of the beneficiaries of various programs that SOS Children's Villages Zambia have set up to reach out into the community surrounding the SOS Children's Village.
Read how SOS reaches out to the community in Zambia... |