Family Strengthening and Livelihood 

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At SOS, we combine short-term aid and long-term guidance to strengthen families so they are better able to care for their children and to protect them from child labor, child trafficking and other threats to their safety.

 

Bosnia & Herzegovina

A father struggles to cope with his own childhood

18.04.2019 - A young father in Srebrenica is struggling to come to terms with the effect of a childhood marked by domestic violence. Having the SOS team by his side has given him new hope that his own family can have a better future.

From Poverty to Empowered

Family strengthening and economic empowerment for Liberian woman and family

28.03.2019 - Decontee Zangar used to struggle to provide for her family. A single mother with five children and another child from her extended family, she sold crushed granite to survive. Today, she has a thriving business selling food.

Running a Family Business in Nepal

Family strengthening programs in Nepal

21.03.2019 - These are happy times in the Khatri household. The family business is thriving, and the children are doing well at school. Four years ago, the situation was very different.

Economic Empowerment for Bosnian Family

Family strengthening programs and economic empowerment for family in southern Bosnia

26.02.2019 - A young couple from Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, struggled to meet their children’s needs. Unemployment, illnesses and social exclusion brought them to the brink of despair. Together with the SOS Children's Villages team, the family is fighting to create a better future for their children.

Family Strengthening from Behind Bars

Family strengthening programs for incarcerated parents in Peru

13.02.2019 - One in four children in need at the SOS Children’s Village Ayacucho, Peru, is in need of quality child care because their parents are in prison.

Family Strengthening Support Has Changed Their Lives

“For the first time I feel like a real dad”

11.02.2019 - Kasum Fejzula, a 35-year-old single father and his four children, lives in a Roma community in a poor part of Skopje, Macedonia. He shares how family strengthening support has changed their lives.

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