!!!Kinderdörfer

Children´s Villages are social institutions with small home-like 
units for children in a village on the model of Swiss children´s 
villages. The Austrian Association of Children´s Villages  Pro 
Juventute was founded in Salzburg in 1947. In 1949 H.  Gmeiner founded 
the  SOS-Kinderdoerfer. The society of Austrian children´s 
villages founded in 1958 is responsible for the A. Afritsch 
children´s village in Steinberg near Graz and another 
children´s village in Poettsching in Burgenland. The  
CaritasCatholic organisation is in charge of the children´s 
village St. Isidor in Leonding near Linz. The Voralberg 
children´s village (in Bregenz since 1977) was formerly a 
holiday home and became a children´s village in 1951.


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