Your contribution supports all programmes at a specific location. The contribution covers the living costs of the entire village, as well as all additional SOS programmes in the area. Most SOS Children’s Villages run supporting facilities and programmes, such as Kindergartens, Hermann Gmeiner Schools, Social Centres and Medical Centres. The services offered here also benefit the neighbouring communities.
SOS Children’s Villages makes every effort to ensure transparency and keep administration costs low. Your sponsorship contributions are earmarked donations which may only be used to support the children living in your sponsored SOS Children’s Village and to cover the running costs and budgeted investments in this village and its supporting programmes. Each SOS Children’s Village must keep well-documented accounts and produce an annual budget which is checked and approved by SOS-Kinderdorf International, the umbrella organisation.
Family strengthening programmes aim to prevent children from losing the care of their family. Many parents lack basic necessities – money to pay the doctor or the school, or perhaps to even secure a meal. The family strengthening programmes are designed to enable families to support themselves in the long-term and cope with life independently. Our family strengthening programme work includes kinship care, where children are supported to live with their extended family and Foster care, where children are supported to live with loving and caring families who are not biologically related to them but can provide a loving home.
Your financial support can go a long way in ensuring that the kinship care, foster care and community empowerment programmes reach more vulnerable children and communities in the different regions of Eswatini. As our national strategy shifts its direction to more community empowerment projects for family empowerment, we aim to increase our footprints in youth empowerment programmes for gender and sexual reproductive health rights, livelihood skills projects and many more. Your contribution will go a long way into ensuring that our programmes are self-sustaining and can service the communities.
SOS Children’s Villages seeks to reach as many vulnerable children as possible. To strengthen families at risk of breaking apart and make it possible for them to stay together is often the best way to help children. Therefore, our family strengthening programmes increasingly focus on helping families in the local community. The programmes provide support to gain skills and resources needed to become self-sufficient and give their children the care that all children deserve. While supporting our work, you help improve the living conditions of exposed children and their families in the local community.
Children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education and training.
With your financial support, we can work with families, communities and partners to ensure that children and young people have access to education and training that addresses individual needs and circumstances and helps them become their strongest selves and achieve their full potential.
Your donation can bring about transformational changes in the lives of entire families, including women, children and the communities they live in
Different kinds of donations help SOS Children’s Village to fulfil its mandate. Donations could be finance or in-kind donations like food, toiletries, clothing, furniture. Donations can also come in form of services offered to SOS Children’s Village at no cost. As for financial donations, cash/cheque can be dropped at any of the SOS Children’s Village centres. Cheque can also be sent by mail.
If you wish to discuss your payment arrangement directly with an SOS Officer, please contact the National Fundraiser on Telephone: +268 2505 8471/2/3 or otherwise send an email to donation@sos.org.sz
Recreating family like environment for 6,500 + children with a stable caregiver and social relationships
38841 direct beneficiaries (Below 18yrs children, VT Youth & primary caregivers)
Ensuring 513 children grow up in natural cultural environments (in 325Kinship families)
38 short stay homes are operating in 28 Children's Villages
8602 children and 13320 families supported last year
956 youth completed skill training programme 237 youth secured first time employment
50 children welcomed in a foster family
115 children cared for in a loving environment
Nhlalakahle, Villiers Street, Manzini, Eswatini
