At least 220 million children are frighteningly alone – shut out from a caring family environment and sometimes even rejected by their communities and deprived of basic needs like food, clothing, shelter, education, health care, protection and love.
Children who grow up alone – without having their basic needs met, without love or security – often struggle to succeed as adults. Even if they have people around them, without the right kind of support and care, they may feel alone.
In SOS families, children who can no longer live with their parents grow up in a caring, stable and secure family environment. Depending on the local context, between four and ten children of different ages live in an SOS home headed by an SOS parent.
