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Capital: Berlin Area: 357,020 km² Population: 82.2 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: 91.5% Germans, 2.4% Turkish and other 6.1% Official language(s): German Religion(s): Protestant (38%), Roman Catholic (34%), Muslim (1.7%), other or not affiliated to any religious denomination (26.3%) Currency:
         
         
  Austria - Select a village Austria is the cradle of the SOS Children's Villages. Aware of the post-war misery and want of so many children in need of care, ,

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Haiti - Select a village In 1986 the dictator, Jean Claude Duvalier, was forced from power. Many foreign companies left the country and the economy collapsed.

  
     

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Ammersee Brandenburg Harksheide Lippe Niederrhein Oberpfalz Pfalz Saar Sachsen Sauerland Schleswig-Holstein Schwarzwald Worpswede Württemberg
Ammersee Brandenburg Harksheide Lippe Niederrhein Oberpfalz Pfalz Saar Sachsen Sauerland Schleswig-Holstein Schwarzwald Worpswede Württemberg
Capital: Berlin
Area: 357,020 km²
Population: 82.2 million (December 2000 est.)
Ethnic groups: 91.5% Germans, 2.4% Turkish and other 6.1%
Official language(s): German
Religion(s): Protestant (38%), Roman Catholic (34%), Muslim (1.7%), other or not affiliated to any religious denomination (26.3%)
Currency: 1 euro = 100 cents
Our Facilities

The SOS Children's Village idea crossed the border from Austria to neighbouring Germany at the beginning of the 1950s. Soon a German SOS Children's Village association was founded and in 1958, the first SOS Children's Village was officially opened in Diessen at lake Ammer (Ammersee).

A total of thirteen more SOS Children's Villages were built in Germany within the following forty years: Schwarzwald, Pfalz, Saar, Württemberg, Harksheide, Worpswede, Oberpfalz, Sauerland, Lippe, Schleswig-Holstein, Niederrhein, Sachsen and Brandenburg.

Additionally, many ancillary facilities were launched, e.g. youth care facilities, vocational training centres, social centres, counselling centres for mothers and families, homes for mentally and physically handicapped people, etc.

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France - Select a village The work of SOS-Kinderdorf International in France started in 1956 on the initiative of the about 20 year old teacher Gilbert Cotteau who,

Panama - Select a village SOS Children's Villages started its work in Panama at the beginning of the 1980s. In 1982, the first SOS Children's Village of the country was...

Luxembourg - Select a village Capital: Luxembourg Area: 2,586 km² Population: 426,000 (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Luxembourgish, Portuguese, Italian, French,

Kenya - Select a village In 1972, construction of the first SOS Children's Village and the SOS Kindergarten started in Nairobi. Only one year later,

Zimbabwe - Select a village The construction work on the first SOS Children's Village in Zimbabwe, in Bindura, started in 1980 and was completed in 1983,

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