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...that worldwide more than 10,000 youngsters are living in SOS Youth Facilities? More than 3,700 of the young beneficiaries are in Asia alone, living in 101 youth facilities, followed by Europe with 76 youth projects, Africa with 72 and America with 56 (figures June 2002). ...that in June 2000 a youth house was opened at the SOS Children?
         
         
  Who we help Whilst many countries that are on the periphery of the globalised economic area are making efforts to ensure a general education for all children...

Look inside At the end of the four years the youngsters, although they may not have learnt so much of an academic nature,

Look inside In addition to a four-year secondary school education, the college also offers a two-year baccalaureate course with an internationally recognized...

  
     

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Young man from Barrett Town, Jamaica - Photo: N. Bernd
...that worldwide more than 10,000 youngsters are living in SOS Youth Facilities? More than 3,700 of the young beneficiaries are in Asia alone, living in 101 youth facilities, followed by Europe with 76 youth projects, Africa with 72 and America with 56 (figures June 2002).

...that in June 2000 a youth house was opened at the SOS Children?s Village in Altmünster (Austria), which is state of the art in terms of ecological construction and energy-saving design? It has been financed through the generosity of 175 local sponsors and is now providing twelve youngsters with a home.

...SOS Children's Villages Honduras is running a youth facility for girls with mental and physical disabilities in Valle de Angeles near Tegucigalpa? The facility offers special care and activities including pottery and wickerwork in two specially designed workshops.
At the SOS Vocational Training Centre Malpotha - Photo: A. Gabriel
...SOS youth from the youth facilities in Nairobi (Kenya) regularly take part in social activities? In 2001 they helped in cleaning actions organised by the community and the United Nations Environmental Programme and joined mothers from the SOS Children's Village in serving breakfast to over 300 street children.

...an extensive training programme has been elaborated for the youngsters of the SOS Youth Facility in Lublin (Poland) with the goal of improving their chances on the labour market? Besides courses in computing and English, communication and sales training are also available.

...that youngsters who have successfully completed the training scheme at the SOS Farming Project in Malpotha (Sri Lanka) are provided with a plot of land to cultivate by themselves? By selling the goods they produce they can gradually buy the parcel of land. If they operate their farm successfully over a longer period of time, SOS Children's Villages waives a part of the sum due.

 
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