SOS Children’s Villages International was born to serve young people after World War II in 1949 through child cover employee Hermann Gmeiner. With this similar initiative, SOS Children’s Villages Bangladesh was formed to marry off young people who had been attracted for a long time. Prominent weather organizations answered questions to transfigure and jam Bangladesh. With the aim of providing vulnerable young people with an inspiring childhood, quality parental care and a sense of belonging, SOS Children’s Villages Bangladesh was established in 1972.
The Father of the Nation and then Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman rewarded the initiative and firmly accepted it. With its seal of approval, the organization has taken its first step and turns 50!
Let’s review his adventure after the effects it had on uprooted young people and vulnerable families in our society.
SOS focuses on 4 principles; Child, father, circle of relatives and community. SOS thematic spaces overlap with Family Like Care, Youth Care, Kinship Care, Family Strengthening, Early Childhood Care and Development, Primary and Secondary Education, Employment and Business Training, and Emergency Response.
Children thriving without parental care is the ultimate goal of SOS Children’s Villages. The kind of general nature that a child develops with the quality care of a strong caregiver who ensures sustainability to satisfy the most productive interest. Even we make sure that biological siblings grow up. on one roof to keep your childhood together. Instead of an institutional placement, SOS provides a circle of family environment and this is where SOS Children’s Villages is idiosyncratic.
Even vulnerable communities are supported to avoid unnecessary separations if we take a look at the programs in our family circle. Family counseling on fundamental issues is provided to the care environment of the biological circle of relatives. When livelihoods are provided, economic expansion intentionally leads to success.
SOS Children’s Villages ensures that young people have equivalent opportunities in schooling and extracurricular activities. Each child works independently on his or her interests and can contemplate. They also get mental, mental, and fitness systems according to their desires so they are never left behind.
From the schooling of young people to their transformation into a professional and technical workforce, SOS is through the individual. In SOS vocational training centres, young and disadvantaged people are trained to expand skills that make them resources.
As a component of the emergency response, SOS has been pragmatic in dealing with Rohingya refugees. Around 350 Rohingya youth received education through SOS Child Care Space and 295 communities gained nutritional assistance, fitness measures and awareness sessions. During the Covid19 pandemic, 11,619 families were subsidized to rebuild their lives with indispensable food, unconditional monetary and psychosocial counseling.
Covering children is a shared responsibility. SOS is subject to and complies with the coverage policy for children, foreign criteria and the most productive practices in its interventions. There is no tolerance when it comes to violence, harassment or abuse against children. We have evolved coverage for children and ensured full use. of complaint mechanisms through complaint boxes, anonymity court cases and other means.
SOS Children’s Villages Bangladesh works in partnership with Kid Progress and National Progress. With its 6 branches across the country, SOS Bangladesh currently covers the lives of 1,042 children/youth and 1,704 people who left the chosen care society’s incorporated care until August 2022. 11,398 are our existing beneficiaries of the strengthening of the family circle. Over the more than 50 years, SOS has effectively served another 70,116 people. They are the lifestyles of SOS Children’s Villages in Bangladesh.
Through our efforts, we aim to contribute to having an impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By strengthening the economic status of marginalized communities, ensuring quality education from number one to higher education, building the capacities of young people, minimizing inequalities through inclusion and social integration, with child coverage measures that lead to maximum social peace, SOS Bangladesh addresses SDG 1, SDG4, SDG8, SDG10 and SDG16.
The National Director of SOS Bangladesh Children’s Villages, Dr. Md. Enamul Haque, expressed his utmost and honest gratitude to the government, partners and donors for their invaluable and uninterrupted help over the years to meet “no child deserves to grow up alone. “.
Building on the expansion foundation forged over the past 50 years, we anticipate that SOS Children’s Villages Bangladesh will continue to have a positive and significant impact on the lives of millions of children for years to come.