- Who we are
SOS Children’s Villages of BiH is a humanitarian organisation that takes care of children and young people without parental care and gives them a chance for a happy childhood and a better future. In SOS families, with brothers, sisters and SOS parents, children grow up in a family-based environment with parental love, because every child deserves to belong somewhere, to be loved and safe.
SOS Children’s Villages of BiH have been operating in BiH since 1994 and are part of SOS Children’s Villages International, international organisation that has been operating for more than 70 years in 136 countries around the world, on 5 continents.
Transparent systems of reporting and monitoring the use of funds enable us to ensure that the donated funds are used in the most efficient way.
Key policies and guidelines enable us to use our resources effectively, meet legal requirements and learn from our experience so we can do the best for children.
The employees of SOS Children’s Villages in BH actively contribute to the development of our Organisation with their creative ideas, revealing a new perspective on things. We truly believe that our different opinions encourage progress and strengthen community – the one in which we achieve our common goals with our different ideas and creative freedom.
Becoming a Committed giver means that you continuously donate monthly to families living in SOS Children’s Villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Our work
Becoming a Committed giver means that you continuously donate monthly to families living in SOS Children’s Villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Committed giving
- Donations from companies and institutions
Our corporate partners, providing financial support, ensure the coverage of part or the entire annual costs of the key programmes of SOS Children’s Villages of BiH. In accordance with your possibilities, wishes and commitment, you can support the annual expenses of the SOS family or part of the expenses for the purchase of food, hygiene products, school supplies, clothes and shoes, overhead or investment expenses, medical expenses, expenses for the services of speech therapists, psychologists, speech therapists.
We cooperate with international organisations and multilateral donors, such as the United Nations and the European Union, as well as with state authorities and embassies in order to improve the situation of vulnerable children, their families and communities.
Join the club of our friends and make BiH society a better place for future generations.
- Publications
Copyright© SOS Children’s Villages BiH.
We allow downloading documents partially or entirely and further use, with full acknowledgement of the original source.
➔ Convention on the Rights of the Child
➔ Child Protection PolicyCopyright© SOS Children’s Villages BiH.
Downloading documents in their entirety or their parts is allowed, with the obligation to quote the original source.
➔ The situation of children in Bosnia and Herzegovina
➔ SOS Voices of Youth leaving care in BiHCopyright© SOS Children’s Villages BiH.
Downloading documents in their entirety or their parts is allowed, with the obligation to quote the original source.
➔ SOS CARE-Promise
➔ Safe and protected children
➔ About the SOS programme for young people YES Centre
➔ SOS Single ParenthoodBecoming a Committed giver means that you continuously donate monthly to families living in SOS Children’s Villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Public funded projects
Strengthening the Social Services System
Since 2018, the organisation SOS Children’s Villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with the entity ministries of social protection, has been implementing the project “Strengthening the social services system in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The project is implemented with the support of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The implementation of this project contributes to the creation of a legal framework and assumptions for the establishment of an accessible system of social services and the improvement of the capacity and knowledge of local professionals.
The project includes 300 foster families, 350 local professionals from the field of social protection and 200 representatives of entity, cantonal, local authorities, as well as social service providers, international organisations and NGOs.
The project is aimed at creating a functional social services system that will be directed towards vulnerable groups in the society and towards individuals, with a special focus on vulnerable categories of children and families in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Project activities:
1 – Providing support in the process of creating quality legal frameworks and standards for raising the quality of social services
2 – Strengthening the capacity of professionals in centres for social work to use methodologies in the field of foster care and case management
3 – Improvement of the social protection database management system
4 – Public advocacy campaign on the need to improve the social services system