SOS Emergency Appeal Information
SOS Emergency Appeal Information |
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SOS Children is the world's largest orphan charity with projects in 125 countries. Most of the work of SOS is providing long term care and education for those most in need: children who do not even have parents there to try to help them. SOS is also a big Schools Charity and has substantial "family-strengthening programs" to help reduce the number of children left all alone.
Often when disaster strikes SOS is present on the ground already. This was the case for the Asian Tsunami emergency, for many famines and for the recent earthquake.
This gives a huge advantage both in speed (we have often been helping for weeks while others struggle to import their 4x4s...) and in local knowledge since we have
mainly local staff in the different locations. When ensuring child safety and dealing with local political challenges a starting point of already being there is a
huge help (and it also helps that locals we work with know we won't leave on the next plane out after the TV cameras have gone).