Africa

World Humanitarian Day

Healing the pain of displaced women and children in Somalia

August 18 2020 - Halima Ahmed Dalel works as a nurse at the SOS Children’s Village Mother and Child Clinic in Somalia. Her patients are mostly internally displaced women and children who live in IDP camps that surround the clinic. Their stories breaks her heart, but she remains motivated by the difference she makes in the lives of many families.

WEST AFRICA

COVID-19 could increase child labor in West Africa

July 11 2020 - Although coronavirus has been slow to take hold in Africa, hotspots have emerged with a scale and depth of financial shock forcing many families to resort to child labor.

Racism

5 tips: Talking to children about racism

July 8 2020 - Since the violent death of George Floyd, people in the USA and around the world have been taking to the streets to protest against racism. It's an issue that affects us all!

BOTSWANA

Helping smuggled migrant children in Botswana

July 2 2020 - For four years, Mpho Gakedirelwe, a social worker at SOS Children’s Villages Tlokweng in Botswana, has worked with children smuggled across the border to Botswana.

ZAMBIA

COVID-19: Parenting and responding in Zambia

June 24 2020 - With the COVID-19 pandemic evolving every day, our programs and staff at SOS Zambia are constantly adapting and working to protect some of our most vulnerable members of society.

Somalia

Coronavirus in Somalia: a doctor's concerns

April 21 2020 - "My country will be heavily challenged to fight COVID-19," says Dr. Farhio Saney, a doctor at the SOS Mother and Child Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia.