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Landslides in Bolivia: SOS Children's Villages to help children and families

March 2 2011 - 02/03/2011 - After landslides destroyed some 400 homes and left over 5000 people and 800 families homeless, SOS Children's Villages reacts to help children and their families. Three SOS community centres were also damaged.

Children in Côte d'Ivoire to be evacuated from the capital Abidjan

February 25 2011 - 25/02/2011 - The situation in Côte d'Ivoire is becoming increasingly threatening. Due to heavy fighting and prevailing insecurity especially in Abobo, a suburb of the main city Abidjan where an SOS Children's Village is located, the decision was made to evacuate the children and SOS mothers to the SOS Children's Village in Aboisso today, some 110 kilometres east of Abidjan. If the situation deteriorates further, the evacuation of all children to Togo must be considered.

Press Release: International Conference “Quality in Alternative Care”

February 17 2011 - 17/02/2011 - SOS Children’s Villages, with the support of various partners, is organising the international conference "Quality in Alternative Care" at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague from 4-6 April 2011.