 Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 23: SOS Children's Village Jammu observed SOS Day on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Founder, Late Dr. Hermann Gmeiner. Cultural and celebratory activities organized by SOS Children and Mothers to grace the event.
Mission Director ICPS J&K, Harvinder Kaur was the chief guest on the occasion.
Sumanta Kar, Secretary General, SOS Children's Villages of India said, "This day, in 1964, saw the establishment of SOS Children's Villages in India. Our work, over the past five decades, has seen us bring up and settle more than 7500 children without parental care through our Family Like Care Programme. Realising that prevention is equally, if not more important than cure, we introduced new forms of childcare programmes through our Basket of Care Solutions that ensure customised solutions for some of the most pressing issues that vulnerable communities face, thereby enabling prevention of child abandonment and securing their basic rights. We currently take care of more than 30,000 children through our Family Strengthening Programme, the flagship intervention of our prevention initiative."
SOS Children's Village came into being in the year 1949, and it was in the year 1964 that SOS Children's Villages of India was established. SOS Children's Villages of India provides children without parental care or at the risk of losing it, a value chain of quality care services that goes beyond childcare alone, ensuring comprehensive child development. Our customized care interventions such as: Family Like Care, Family Strengthening, Kinship Care, Short Stay Homes, Foster Care, Youth Skilling, Emergency Childcare and Special Needs Childcare are aimed at transforming lives and enabling children under care into self-reliant and contributing members of society. The organization empowers vulnerable families in communities to become financially independent, thereby enabling them to create safe and nurturing spaces for children under their care. Today, over 6,500 children live in more than 440 family homes, inside 32 SOS Children's Villages of India, in 22 States/UTs, from Srinagar to Kochi, and Bhuj to Shillong. They are lovingly cared for and nurtured by over 600 SOS Mothers and Aunts. As India's largest self-implementing childcare NGO, SOS Children's Villages India directly touches the lives of around 30,000 children every year.
SOS Day, commemorated on the 23rd of June every year, marks the birth anniversary of Dr. Hermann Gmeiner, the Founder of SOS Children's Villages. The first SOS Children's Village was founded in Tyrol, Austria in 1949, after World War II.
Established in 1964, SOS Children's Villages of India provides children without parental care or at the risk of losing it, a value chain of quality care services that goes beyond childcare alone, ensuring comprehensive child development. Our customized care interventions such as: Family Like Care, Family Strengthening, Kinship Care, Short Stay Homes, Foster Care, Youth Skilling, Emergency Childcare and Special Needs Childcare are aimed at transforming lives and enabling children under care into self-reliant and contributing members of society. The organization empowers vulnerable families in communities to become financially independent, thereby enabling them to create safe and nurturing spaces for children under their care.
Today, over 6,500 children live in more than 440 family homes, inside 32 SOS Children's Villages of India, in 22 States/UTs, from Srinagar to Kochi, and Bhuj to Shillong. They are lovingly cared for and nurtured by over 600 SOS Mothers and Aunts. As India's largest self-implementing childcare NGO, SOS Children's Villages India directly touches the lives of around 30,000 children every year. |
