PARTNER SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZATIONS

International SOS Children's Villages
Qiqihar University
Beijing BDA Experimental School



International SOS Children's Villages

International SOS Children's Villages is a non-profit, non-governmental, independent, world-wide organization, which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. It was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Imst, Austria. The organization is active in 132 countries and territories worldwide. The variety of this international work is brought together by the umbrella organization SOS-Kinderdorf International, which unites all of the autonomous national associations.
The organization's work focuses on abandoned, destitute and orphaned children requiring family-based child care. Millions of children worldwide are living without their biological families for a variety of reasons including: parental separation, domestic violence and neglect, they have lost their parents due to war or natural catastrophes, disease - including increasingly AIDS.

Such children are supported to recover from being emotionally traumatised and to avoid real danger of being isolated, abused, exploited and deprived of their rights. SOS provides about 50,000 such children and 15 000 young adults with a permanent new family, with a '24 hours a day' new SOS mother to provide family-based care. Typically (in the developing world) about ten children are grouped into a house with an SOS mother and between ten and forty of such houses are grouped together as a "Village" with shared facilities. Families groups once formed are kept together as a priority.
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SOS Children's Village Qiqihar

The SOS Children's Village Qiqihar started in 1991. It is situated in industrial town of Qiqihar, an important economic and cultural centre, in the very north of China, in the province of Heilongjiang.
SOS Children's Village Qiqihar consists of 15 family houses, the village director's house, a house for the SOS aunts (family helpers who support the SOS mothers), an SOS Kindergarten, an SOS Youth House and a room for medical treatment, where a doctor attends to the medical needs of the children and staff of the village. It also has its own sports field.
The SOS Hermann Gmeiner Technical School, an SOS Vocational Training Centre, is part of the Qiqihar University for vocational training to SOS youth in village. It has 19 classrooms, 18 rooms where practical subjects are taught (laboratories etc.), and there is a building with accommodation for approximately 300 students.
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SOS Children's Village Qiqihar	Children in the Village	Gmeiner Technical School      in Qiqihar University

SOS Children's Village Tianjin

Tianjin is a big city situated about 100 km south-east of the capital, Beijing. The SOS Children's Village was established in the eastern outskirts of the city, in the district of Hedong, and consists of 20 family houses, the village director's house, a house for the SOS aunts (family helpers who support the SOS mothers) and an administration and service area. more...

SOS Children's Village Beijing

Beijing SOS Children's Village will be formally set up in June 2008 in Huangcun Village, Daxing District of Beijing. The Village will enroll 20 orphans in the first phase to form four to five families and it will enroll a total of 120 orphans in one to two years.
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