You can give a child the most precious gift: a loving home

Every child deserves to be loved. But sadly, one in 10 children around the world doesn’t have a safe, loving family to call their own. These children—alone and scared—have one wish: to be loved.

This holiday season, you can fulfill the World’s Shortest Wishlist and give the most precious gift to a child in need: the unconditional love of a family. Because Love Matters.

URGENT: You are needed now more than ever!

How you can help a child that needs you

Donate to childen

Send the life-changing gift of a family to vulnerable children. With a safe home and caring family, children can build healthy relationships and thrive!

Make a donation

Sponsor a child

Be the loving force a child needs, helping to provide food, education and a loving home. Your generous commitment is a daily reminder that they are loved and valued!

Sponsor a child

Shop the gift catalog

Deliver real gifts and life-changing support to a child or family in need. Whatever item you choose, know you are giving an incredibly impactful gift: Love, Delivered.

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Every $1 you give delivers $4.90 in lasting benefits to the world’s most vulnerable children, families and communities. Your support creates lifelong higher income opportunities, keeps families together and builds stronger communities for generations.

A charity you can trust

SOS Children’s Villages has earned a perfect 100% rating from Charity Navigator—a rare rating only given to 20% of charities that are highly impactful, fiscally responsible and transparent.

           

Your love matters in a child’s life!

Transform a child’s life with the love they need and deserve today. 

Make A donation    Sponsor a child

How your support changes children's lives

Because of you, SOS has been able to work for more than 75 years and in over 130 countries, creating a world where every child has a safe home, loving family and everything they need to thrive—now and for years to come. Your gift:

Provides more than 65,300 children without parental care with safe homes, trauma-informed care, loving families and everything they need to thrive.

Delivers life-saving aid—like safe shelter, clean water, nourishing food, professional health care and more—to more than two million children and families.

Provides medicine and critical physical and mental health care to more than 113,000 children and families in need.

Provides quality education and employment trainings to more than one million children, young people and parents.

Make your gift now

Thank you for providing loving families to the world’s most vulnerable children. Your end-of-year charitable gift is tax-deductable to fullest extent allowed by law.