PRESS CENTER

Dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake in Chile

April 19 2010 - 19/04/2010 - The need to rediscover their classmates and friends, to see their teachers and, mainly, to feel that they are returning to normality, was something urgently needed by the children in Concepción and surrounding areas after the quake which struck Chile on 27 February.

SOS School reopens in Haiti

April 7 2010 - 06/04/2010 - Before the earthquake, the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School in Santo on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince had 550 pupils. But with the many abandoned and orphaned children which are temporarily cared for at the SOS Children's Village, that number is expected to increase with approximately 300 more students.

Haiti's people must be made "owners" of the rebuilding process

March 31 2010 - 31/03/2010 - On the occasion of today's donors' conference on Haiti, Plan International, Save the Children, Oxfam, World Vision International, UNICEF and SOS Children's Villages International highlighted the importance of involving the Haitian public, especially children and young people, in the rebuilding of the country.