SOS Children- Newsletter

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeBe part of Chipata!

We are building a new Children's Village in Chipata, eastern Zambia, where chronic poverty and disease have left thousands of children completely alone without  parental  care.  The new Village will provide a safe home for vulnerable  children,  as  well as a school and medical centre for the community. Learn how you can help give children a family for life by being part of Chipata. Read more and watch the video
SOS Chipata

It's never too late to learn: Empowering women in Guatemala

Many women from Mayan communities in Guatemala are excluded from the educational system and isolated from public life. Since 2005, SOS Children has been running a literacy programme in the city of Sololá, to help women learn new skills and gain confidence. Read how we helped Isabel (pictured) learn to read and write at the age of 51!
Guatemala Women

New edition of Family Matters

Have you read the latest edition of the SOS magazine? With a focus on our medical facilities across the world, it explores the variety of services we provide, including direct treatments, immunisation programmes, healthcare
education and psychological support. Learn how we are helping children and families to stay healthy thanks to your support. Read More
New Edition

"We have hope because SOS Children is here"

SOS has just opened a Children’s Village in Kayonza in Rwanda, a region where HIV/AIDS has left many child-headed households struggling to survive. The country's fourth Children’s Village will provide a new family for 120 vulnerable children. A lively ceremony marked the opening of the Village, with colourful performances from the excited new residents. Read More
SOS Rwanda

A speedy way of improving literacy skills in Indonesia

On the Indonesian island of Flores, many families are too poor to afford books and most public libraries are under stocked. To help with the problem, SOS has built mobile libraries onto the back of two motorcycles, each holding around 700 books. Three times a week, the 'book bikes' travel to deprived areas, giving hundreds of children the opportunity to access free resources and improve their literacy skills.Read More
SOS Indonesia


DJ Nihal runs the British 10K for SOS

On the 10th July, 30 fantastic SOS supporters including Radio One DJ Nihal and the Mayor of London's Director of Environment and Digital London, Kulver Ranger, will take on the British 10K in central London to raise money for our work. The duo are training hard in preparation for the big day, but are finding  the  demanding fitness regime harder than they first thought! Read more
< href="http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/celeb-football-supporters-help-support-sos"> Fund Raising

Reaching out to informal workers in Kenya

Nearly one in three Kenyans work in the unreliable and poorly paid informal sector. The SOS Vocational Training Centre in Nairobi runs flexible courses to help informal workers improve their skills in areas such as mechanics and textiles. Workshops on entrepreneurial skills and book keeping support them to make their businesses as profitable as possible. Read more
SOS Kenya

Be inspired by the latest Fundraising Matters newsletter

The  new edition of _Fundraising Matters_ is now ready to download! Read about some of our most enthusiastic and imaginative supporters, including residents of a village in Hertfordshire who joined together to support our new projects in Zambia, and students from the London School of Economics who
braved a sponsored sky dive to raise awareness for our work. Read more
Fund Raising

And finally...keep your eye on Moments Make Families day July 11th

Every parent and child experience moments that make them a family. From everyday  activities  such  as  having dinner together and celebrating birthdays, these moments bind families together. Yet there are millions of
children across the world who never have these experiences. On July 11th, we will highlight the right all children have to family moments to remember.


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SENIOR ACCOUNTANT | Two orphaned refugee children’s homes in NORTHERN-UGANDA

urgently need a volunteer | Assignment length 6+ weeks

Our two partners, a children’s home for refugee orphaned children aged between 6 and 18 and a babies’ home for abandoned and orphaned babies, need a senior accountant to assist with their financial capacity building and creating sustainable procedures and controls.

Our partners strive to give vulnerable children in this area an opportunity for a better future. They are in the process of establishing more income-generating projects so that the homes can become increasingly self-sufficient. They are also engaged in dialogue with the local community, members of parliament and district officials to ensure that they play their role in the homes' management and sustainability.

Could you spare some time and share your professional knowledge with these two very deserving organisations? This is your opportunity to use your accounting skills to make a genuine difference while gaining memorable hands on experience in the international development sector.

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A Gift of Hope-SOS Children

One fine day, I decided to raise fund via Touch One Heart & Gift of Hope Program for SOS Children Villages as part of my way of giving back to the society. My target is that by end of 2011, I shall be able to raise GBP1,505.74. Things have been not progressing that well, unfortunately and the only way is to do more promotions and aggressively market the initiative and I know for a fact, that it is not going to be easy.

As you can read from SOS Children Villages website, Gift to Liveis sanctioned by the organization as one way to help to raise the fund.

For one, I did not take or benefit a single cent from every single penny that you, the most generous person on earth donate or contribute. All the amounts go directly to SOS Children

Below is the email extract that I got from Touch One Heart & Gift of Hope that read ;

" Irwan, don't miss out on the last bank holiday before August. Book now for 30th May with up to 30% off at Hotels.com and raise 2.5% for SOS Children.

Book by 9th May to receive up to 30% off hotel bookings from Hotels.com. From Boston to Barcelona to Bath, with Give as you Live™, Everyclick's new shopping App, Hotels.com will donate 2.5% of whatever you spend to SOS Children and give you up to 30% off your booking.

There are hundreds of other travel retailers offering flights, days out and holidays with Give as you Live™ including lastminute.com, British Airways and Expedia.Book now to avoid missing out on the last bank holiday before August."


Perhaps, you can help the children from all over the world with Touch One Heart & Gift of Hope Program that I am currently having for SOS Children Villages by making your booking and reservation of your holidays and vacations of choices with your beloved ones via Gift to Live Program. What is more satisfying, other than knowing that you have made a difference to someone life while enjoying your vacations with the loved ones.

I would like to THANK YOU for each and everyone of you who donate and everyone of you who shared this initiative with the rest of you circle of influences. Let spread the words about this initiative. For every 1 GBP you contribute, it will make a BIG Difference and Give Hope to Children all over the world.

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Time to make a change : In support of good cause

"A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad." - Dyson, Freeman

Got a message of a friend of mine @ Nina ;

"This reminds me of a saying: It's not so much of the size of the dog in the fight, but more of the size of the fight in the dog'. When you fight fair and diligently, you will win."

I am helping a friend of mine, Dan Wilson who will be participating in " Walk The Wall 2010 Hong Kong ", organized by International China Concern, a registered charity providing full time care for hundreds of children and adult with disabilities. He is in the midst of raising about USD 500 as part of his pledge to contribute and donate to the organization for the benefits of unique children and adult alike. 

I am to work together with him for one main reason, because it is for good cause and WHY not ? I am inviting all of you my reader, to join Dan and myself to make a difference in their life. You can participate in many ways ;

1. Participate in the walk yourself [ if you happened to be around Hong Kong or China] ;

2. Share about the program with the rest of your friends and circle of influence;

3. Sponsor my friend Dan Wilson, by clicking the button below;



Every single penny and dollar of our contribution will directly go the organization , International China Concern. Find out more about the organization and the program here ; 

Read more about the organizer @ Walk The Wall
 
Do not worry about how much , even a $ 1 a person will make long way for the organization. Just remember the power of 1 ! If 1 person pledges to contribute $1 , imagine how much if 1 million person pledges to do the same ? Collectively, it will be USD 1 Million ! 

It is the special person like each and every one of you who make it happens, and together we make it happens !  
Hope to  see you, joining me and together we make it happens !It is all now yours !

DISCLAIMER: Notice :Opinions, stories , thoughts expressed are blogger's own and do not necessarily represent the views of the institution or the organizations by which the blogger is employed or any specific person who so ever, either dead or alive.