The SOS Children's Villages International, Pakistan is in the search of mothers and financial support from the people of this country to ensure provision of better facilities to the orphaned and abandoned children, said Sourya Anwar, President, SOS Children's Villages International, Pakistan.
Briefing the newsmen about works and plans of the SOS Children's Villages International at a local hotel on Wednesday, she said that the organisation was always in search of women who are mothers from their inside and could treat orphans and abandoned children as their own.
The first-ever SOS Village was established in Lahore with the financial support of foreigners after which the people of our country provided full support, she said and added that the people of this country were known as the philanthropists world-wide as compared to the rate of the country's GDP.
It is the job of the government to provide basic facilities to the children, but the SOS Children's Villages with the support of government authorities is doing it. The organisation had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the federal government in this regard, she added.
Sourya Anwar informed that the organisation was establishing the Children's Village in Islamabad to house at least 250 children, who had lost their parents and loved ones in October 8, 2005 earthquake in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and it would be completed shortly.
President SOS Children's Villages International, Austria, Helmut Kutin said that his organisation wanted to see children living together without war and hatred. The orphaned and abandoned children should have a home and grow properly into a future that is characterised by support, respect and mutual understanding, he added.
More than 150 SOS Children's Villages have been built around the world. Since the opening of the borders to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the main thrust of the SOS Children's Village development effort has been in those countries, he added.
Hermann Gmeiner's SOS Children's Village concept is not just aiming at the children in an SOS Children's Village, the organisation wants every child in this world to have a mother and a family as well as brother and sisters, a house and a community. The organisation wants as many children as possible both inside and outside the SOS Children's Village to grow up under these conditions, Kutin noted.
Chairman Advisory Committee, SOS Children's Villages International, Javed Jabbar said that apart from the orphaned and abandoned children, the organisation was trying to provide quality education and vocational training to underprivileged children in the society as well as the community services in selected areas. He said the SOS Youth Home Facility at Hashmi Bagh in Malir town was inaugurated recently by Helmut Kutin where the adults would be shifted and taken care off in better manner.
The other development was the inauguration of the SOS Technical Training Institute in Korangi town in collaboration with the Infaq Foundation. This institute will provide technical education to some 500 students in a year in the first phase and another 500 students in the second phase, Jabbar added.
Yacoobali G Zamindar, Chairman SOS Children's Villages Sindh said that the existing facilities of the organisation in the province were the SOS Karachi Village, SOS Youth Home, Medical Centre, SOS Technical Training Institute (Infaq Foundation Campus) and our flagship SOS Hermann Gmeiner School which is providing quality education to 1300 underprivileged children in Malir town.
The construction of another SOS Children's Village at Jamshoro is in progress and it is expected to be completed by the end of the current month. This village will contain 15 homes accommodating 8 to 10 children in each household with the family of brothers and sisters being looked after by a mother, Zamindar said.
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