- 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.
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- 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.
Public funded projects
YEEP- Youth Empowerment Enabling Prospects
Since 2016, SOS Children’s Villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been successfully contributing to support in the employment of young people in need. These activities are closely related to the mission of our Organisation “No child should grow up alone”.
Young people growing up in alternative care and young people with complex socio-economic problems often lack adequate opportunities and access to the labour market due to insufficient skills and qualifications and are often unemployed and excluded from society for a long time – stigmatized, with low self-esteem, low social competences and an undeveloped support network. At the same time, professionals from local authorities and organisations need additional skills and methods to successfully support these young people in their integration into the labour market.
The YEEP project is financially supported by the BMZ -the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Hermann Gmeiner Fonds Deutschland.
The goal of the project is to empower 1,600 young people at risk in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia, so they could have the opportunity for employment and active participation in the labour market.
Target group: 1600 young people
between the ages of 16 and 35 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia, who are socially excluded, with low incomes and slim possibility of independence and improving their economic status
230 representatives
Of ministries of labour and social welfare, business and civil society, social service providers, municipalities, employment agencies.
Indirect target group
3500 young people
at social risk are also included in activities through partners who are empowered by this project
Through the project, we want to achieve:
– 1600 young people
have successfully completed specialized training/professional retraining and additional qualification
– 150 young people have successfully completed specialised training/professional retraining and upskilling/
– 500 young people have successfully completed practical training and professional advising at the employer