Family & Community Strengthening

Our family strengthening programs empower families to overcome hardships. We strengthen families at risk of falling apart, giving them the support they need to grow stronger, stay together and keep their children safe. This comprehensive approach builds resilient families that go on to better their own lives and strengthen their communities.

Situation Overview

Families across the world are more vulnerable today than ever before. Adverse circumstances like poverty, armed conflict and disease present overwhelming challenges for parents and threaten family stability.

When families are at risk of falling apart, children are at a much greater risk of being abandoned and left vulnerable to child labor, child trafficking and other threats to their safety.

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The Problem in Numbers

million

children worldwide are at risk of growing up alone

#

cause for child abandonment is poverty

1 in 10

have lost or are at risk of losing parental care

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Our Approach

In partnership with governments, NGOs and other relief organizations, we build effective community support systems. Our short-term assistance to vulnerable families includes food, medical care and access to education. Our long-term services, which focus on making families self-reliant, include savings and loan associations, income-generating activities, childrearing classes, health education and more.

Health Care

Access to nutritional and health care support to help keep children and families healthy.

Education

Assistance with school fees, uniforms and materials so children have the opportunity to learn.

Counseling

Trainings in parenting and household management skills to help parents provide better care for their children.

Income

Job skills and income generating support to help families establish a sustainable livelihood.

Latest Impact Stories

Bosnia & Herzegovina

A father struggles to cope with his own childhood

April 18 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

March 28 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

March 21 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.

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Our Unique Focus Areas: Quality Care Throughout a Child’s Life

Children's Rights & Advocacy

Actively advocating for children’s rights, and teaching children and youth to become their own advocates so that the voice of future generations is loud and clear.

Long-Term Quality Care

Providing stability and loving families to children and young adults who have been orphaned or abandoned, and ensuring that they are supported, encouraged and loved throughout their lives.

Education, Employment and Empowerment

Empowering the next generation, and providing them with the education, tools, encouragement and support to build their own futures.

FOR MILLIONS OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD

Family and Community Strengthening