SOS Children’s Villages of India is the largest operation within the SOS International Federation of 134 countries. We are an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organisation working for the holistic development of parentless children belonging to vulnerable families. Founded in 1949 in Austria, SOS Children’s Villages India set up its first Village at Faridabad near Delhi in 1964. Till date, there are 32 Villages across 22 Indian States/Union Territories.
Our Flagship Programmes are :
1. FAMILY BASED CARE (FBC): Each Village has 12-15 Family Homes, with every home consisting of 10 children on an average along with an SOS Mother. Holistic development including education, nutrition, health and psychological development is taken care of till the time children are settled in their lives.
2. FAMILY STRENGTHENING PROGRAMME (FSP) is a preventive community intervention programme to prevent children from losing parental care or from being abandoned. This programme runs in slums & rural areas, within a 30 km radius of an SOS Children’s Village. The beneficiaries of this program are children of the most vulnerable lot i.e. children of widows, single women, and Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.
3. SOS Children’s Villages of India also operates kindergartens, day-care centres, schools and vocational training centres and also runs medical centres with an emphasis on specialised child care and women empowerment.
4. Finally, through advocacy, we aim to improve the overall framework conditions for children who have been rendered orphaned or who are at the risk of losing parental care. We work in the spirit of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and we promote these rights through our flagship programmes.