A LOVING HOME FOR EVERY CHILD

SWIFT CONFERENCE

COPENHAGEN

MARCH 5TH 2015

WHY we do what we do...

151 MILLION children worldwide have lost one or both parents. UNICEF 2011

We believe that every child needs a loving home to flourish in and we

help families around the world make it happen.

The first SOS Children‘s Village built in Imst, Austria.

Established in 1949 as a reaction to WWII

1949

SOS Children‘s Villages is working in 134 countries and territories around the world.

Our expanding geographic reach…

today

Where the children live

410,800 children, youth and parents globally*

Latin America Africa &

Middle East

Asia

Western Europe & North America

Central & Eastern Europe, CIS, Baltics

* in SOS Children‘s Villages, youth programmes and family strengthening programmes

160,400

101,600

21,200 18,100

109,500

Whatever we do, the child is at the center.

Biological families • Access to community services

• Coaching & vocational training

• Advice on raising children

• Help with finances

SOS families • Care of a mother

• Loving home

• Supportive community

Focus on the family

SWIFT is supporting SOS Finland

SOS Finland

• Established in 1962.

• Currently running 6 villages and 1

youth center.

• In 2014 helping 400 children.

• Aiming to reach at least 1,000

children in 2018.

• Increasing our share of preventive

work through Family Strengthening

Programs and support to youth

leaving care/ gaining independence.

A new way of working: ”Village of Tomorrow”

Integrated Children’s Villages

• Foster care and open care

preventive services are brought

closer to where the need is.

• Two new integrated CVs are being

established:

• Tampere (2012)

• Vantaa (to be est. 2016)

• Integration into local communities.

• Minimizing the “stigma” of being placed in alternative care.

The integrated CV Tampere

CV Tampere

• First 2 homes opened in 2012.

• Extension with 3rd home opened in

2014.

• 13 children living here.

• In 2015-2016 4 new homes planned

to open.

• Financial support needed for finalizing

the project.

• In 2016 it is estimated that 20-30

children live in the village and some

60 are reached by the FSP.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

”Good things happen, when people do more than they have to” Hermann Gmeiner, founder of SOS Children’s Villages