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Syria - Select a village Capital: Damascus Area: 185,180 kmē Population: 15.7 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Arabs, Kurds, Armenians Official language(s):
Malawi - Select a village Already in 1986, a field study was carried out by SOS-Kinderdorf International in Malawi. Five years later, in 1991,
Tanzania - Select a village In 1984, the former President of Tanzania, Mr Ali Hassan Mwinyi, made the request to to build an SOS Children's Village in Zanzibar.
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Capital: Beirut
Area: 10,452 kmē
Population: 3.2 million(December 2000 est.)
Ethnic groups: Lebanese Arabs (83%), Palestinian Arabs (10%), Armenians (5%), Assyrians, Kurds, Jews, Turks, and Greeks
Official language(s): Arabic
Religion(s): Maronite or Greek Orthodox Christians (40%), Sunni, Shiite or Druze Muslims (60%)
Currency: 1 Lebanese pound = 100 piastres
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Our Facilities
In the Lebanon, SOS Children's Village began its work in the early sixties. The first SOS Children's Village was opened at Bhersaf. It is located in Metn, Mont-Liban area. The official opening ceremony took place in 1969. The second SOS-Children's Village Sferai is situated in the south of Lebanon, about 65 km from Beyrout. It was opened in 1981 by in person.
The SOS Social Centre "SOS Entraide" was established in Mkallčs in 1986 with the aim of helping socially deprived women and widows and their children. 20 women have found a job in the workshop in Mkallčs. In 1993, a house in Jouar-Khanchara in the Mont-Liban area was donated to the Lebanese SOS Association for 99 years. The building was renovated and transferred into a SOS Training and Holiday Centre. In the same year construction of the SOS Children's Village Kfarhay was started in northern Lebanon. It was finished and started to operate in 1995.
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Zambia - Select a village Capital: Lusaka Area: 752,614 kmē Population: 9.9 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: 70 different ethnic groups speaking a Bantu language,
Greece - Select a village Capital: Athens Area: 131,957 kmē Population: 10.6 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: 98% ethnic Greek Official language(s):
Namibia - Select a village The work of SOS-Kinderdorf International began in 1982. In 1984, the construction work on the first SOS Children's Village Windhoek,
Cameroon - Select a village Capital: Yaounde Area: 475,442 kmē Population: 14.7 million(December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Bamileke, Fulbe Official language(s): French,
Kenya - Select a village Capital: Nairobi Area: 583,000 kmē Population: 29.5 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Kikuyu (21%), Luhya (14%), Luo (13%), Akamba (11%),
Davao The SOS Children's Village Davao was officially opened in 1982. It is located near the main road which connects the city centre of Davao with the...
Chad - Select a village Negotiations between SOS Children's Villages and government authorities had been going on for years when in early 2002 groundbreaking decisions were...
Harrar The second Ethiopian SOS Children's Village was built in Harrar in 1979. Harrar is the capital of the province of Harrarghe,
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