International News

Youth Employability

Learnio: Embarking on the journey to digital employment

November 16 2023 - Knowing how to use a computer to find information and communicate is one thing – building a digital services career is the next level. Digital skills trainings provided by Learnio Social Enterprise in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages are becoming a cornerstone of the Digital Villages programme.

Africa

New report shows an estimated 35 million children in Africa are without parental care

November 10 2023 - An estimated 35 million children are without parental care in Africa, a report released by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, part of the African Union, has shown.

ETHIOPIA

Selam fights against FGM for herself and other girls in her community

October 31 2023 - Selam*, 11, arrived at home from school one day and found her mother with an older woman waiting for her. Her mother said they wanted “a tiny part” of her body cut off. Selam knew what the two women meant.

Palestine

SOS Children's Villages strongly condemns airstrike on its facilities in Gaza

October 23 2023 - Two apartments where SOS Children's Villages in Gaza provided housing for families living in the community were completely destroyed in an airstrike. The people living in the apartments had already been relocated to another location further south. No programme participants or staff were killed or injured by this strike.

Sudan

Children displaced by violence long to return home

October 23 2023 - Six months after war forced families out of the SOS Children’s Village in Khartoum, all children and caregivers have found solace and comfort in safer states in Sudan. The fifteen families fled the children’s village when fighting began in April.

Joint Statement

#CeasefireNow: Open Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe and Further Loss of Innocent Lives

October 19 2023 - We have witnessed unfathomable death and destruction in the Gaza Strip and Israel. Thousands of people have been killed, injured, displaced, and nearly two hundred remain held hostage, including children and elderly.