!!!SOS-Kinderdörfer

SOS Kinderdoerfer (children's villages), international social 
initiative helping children on a private basis, politically and 
denominationally independent. H.  Gmeiner founded the society 
"Societas Socialis" (SOS) and the first SOS Kinderdorf in 
Imst (Tirol) in 1949. Socially orphaned children find a home in SOS 
Kinderdorf villages. In each SOS Kinderdorf family five to seven 
children live in a house with their SOS Children's Village Mother (15 
to 20 families in each Kinderdorf village). As of 1999 there were nine 
SOS Kinderdorf villages in Austria (Pinkafeld, Burgenland; 
Hinterbruehl, Lower Austria; Altmuenster, Upper Austria; Seekirchen, 
Salzburg; Stuebing, Styria; Moosburg, Carinthia; Imst and 
Nussdorf-Debant, Tirol; Dornbirn, Vorarlberg) and 11 SOS Youth Houses 
where groups of young people live with their supervisors (usually 
their SOS Children's Village Mothers), 7 kindergartens and 5 special 
facilities (special needs centre, children's residential groups, youth 
counselling centre etc.); these facilities together cater for about 
1000 children and young people. Internationally (in 131 countries) 
more than 200,000 children are cared for in 385 SOS Kinderdorf 
villages and 1000 other SOS institutions (kindergartens, schools 
etc.). The umbrella organisation is SOS Kinderdorf International with 
headquarters in Innsbruck, Tirol.

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Magazine: SOS-Kinderdorf-Bote, quarterly.


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