SOS Children's Villages

Ethiopia, Kenya, and Malawi are among the first eight nations that will receive funds from the U.S. government’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus grant.

SOS Children’s Villages welcomed acclaimed actor Djimon Hounsou and his wife, Kimora Lee Simmons, to its Village in Cape Town, South Africa. The couple visited with the children and expressed their support for SOS Children’s Villages worldwide.

Center-half Michael Dawson of England’s Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, or the Spurs, took time out of his trip to the 2010 South Africa World Cup to visit someone special.

Improved education for girls in the impoverished nation of Bangladesh has greatly reduced its maternal mortality rate. Between 1990 and 2008, the rate of Bangladeshi women dying in childbirth dropped from 724 deaths per 100,000 live births to 338.

June 10, 2010: Up to 25 at-risk children will find new, loving homes in SOS Children's Villages-Fukuoka, the first SOS Children's Village in Japan.

Thanks to the business and cultural community of Atlanta, Georgia, soccer fans in this southern US city are about to celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup in a fun way that will also benefit children around the world.