SOS Children
SOS Children works in 124 countries around the world. Click on a region to find more details.
SOS Children is a charity helping children with absolutely nowhere else to turn. It is a charity which stays long after the TV cameras have left, and has more than fifty years of achievements as a children's charity. Today, nearly a million children worldwide directly benefit from SOS and around 60,000 depend entirely on SOS for a home, family and future.
SOS Children supports children in the community with "home support" for child-led families (where the parents have died of HIV-AIDS), medical care, food security projects, schooling and training, trauma counselling (for children caught in conflict) and other support.
What can you do?
In February 2008, people across the UK from politicians to school kids and grannies to strong men, will be wearing something wacky, extravagant or simply out of the ordinary to support World Orphan Week, SOS Children’s annual fundraiser. Register now for your free fundraising pack.
WOW stands for World Orphan Week - a time when you can make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children worldwide.
And it couldn’t be easier. Encourage everyone you know to ‘wear something WOW’ for a day in exchange for a suggested donation of £1 per child and £2 per adult.
Wear a feather in your hair, a fabulously loud tie, fancy dress, your partner’s clothes or a decorated school bag. You could even buy the WOW necklace and bracelet from Accessorize stores (watch this space!) - just make it shout ‘WOW’.