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Zimbabwe - Select a village Capital: Harare Area: 390,580 kmē Population: 11.5 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Shona (75%), Ndebele (24%), Asians,
Namibia - Select a village Capital: Windhoek Area: 825,418 kmē Population: 1.7 million(December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: African descent (86%), European (6.6%),
Venezuela - Select a village Capital: Caracas Area: 912,050 kmē Population: 23.7 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: 69% mestizos or mulattos, European descent 20%,
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Capital: Pretoria
Area: 1,219,912 kmē
Population: 39.9 million(December 2000 est.)
Ethnic groups: 75% African descent, 14% European descent, 8% coloured, and 3% of Indian descent
Official language(s): English, Afrikaans, seSotho, isiXhosa, isiZulu, isiNdebele, saLebowa, siSwati, Xitsonga, Setswana, and Tshivenda.
Religion(s): Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and traditional religions
Currency: 1 rand = 100 cents
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The first South African SOS Children's Village was completed in 1983 in Ennerdale near Johannesburg, and a second one in 1986 in Mamelodi, not far from the capital Pretoria. As these SOS Children's Villages were situated in black areas, they were only able to admit black children. Soon the idea of a new village in a mixed area was born. This third SOS Children's Village which was founded in Port Elizabeth on the Eastern Cape, was opened in 1989, followed by a fourth one in Cape Town 1994. The fifth Village was erected in summer 1996 in Pietermaritzburg, making SOS Children?s Village Umtata, which was opened in 1997, the sixth Village in South Africa. The construction of a seventh SOS Children's Village in South Africa, in Mpumalanga, the easternmost province, is planned.
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Uganda - Select a village SOS-Kinderdorf International started its activities in Uganda in 1988. The SOS Children's Village Kakiri was the first SOS project that was founded...
Uruguay - Select a village Capital: Montevideo Area: 176,215 kmē Population: 3.3 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: European descent 88%, 8% mestizos,
Mauritius - Select a village Capital: Port Louis Area: 1,860 kmē Population: 1.2 million(December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Descendants of Indian immigrants (65%),
Haiti - Select a village The start of the SOS Children's Village work in Haiti goes back to 1978. It was then that Rodriguez Ben Bichtotte,
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,
Monaragala In January 1999, the site for the fifth SOS Children's Village of Sri Lanka was donated to SOS Children's Villages by the government of the country.
Germany - Select a village The SOS Children's Village idea crossed the border from Austria to neighbouring Germany at the beginning of the 1950s.
Latvia - Select a village Capital: Riga Area: 64,589 kmē Population: 2.4 million (December 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Latvian (57%), Russian (30%), Belorussian (4%),
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