Press Release
SOS Children’s Villages of India Celebrated Mother’s Day
Over 600 Yashodha Ma and aunts of the organization were honored at 32centres in 22 States
Bangalore, May 10, 2017
"No man is poor who has a Godly mother", Abraham Lincoln once opined. The unconditional love of 'mothers' for 'their children' at SOS Children's Village justifies his opinion. To celebrate this bond, SOS Children’s Villages of India, a globally operational not-for-profit organization paid tribute to the SOS Motherswith daylong celebrations across 32Children’s Villages in India.
The event started with felicitation of mothers for her selfless love, devotion and care towards the once parentless or abandoned children and for nurturing them into becoming contributing members of the society. The celebration witnessed the participation of SOS Family members in all the 32projects including children, mothers and employees showcasing strength of 100 to 250 people.
SOS Children’s Villages were founded by Dr. Hermann Gmeiner, an Austrian, who pioneered the concept of bringing up children without a family and parental care not just in a regular orphanage, but giving them the security and quality care of a home, the love and care of a "Mother" and a framework of sibling relationships providing them emotional security for a lifetime. Presently over 400 Mothers are busy in bringing over 6700 children across 22 states at 32 SOS Children Villages. Their values, love and care reflects in the successful settlement of over 4500 children spanning four completely through marriage or career.
The celebration also witnessed culturalperformances presented by the children of SOS Bangalore for their mothers. Overwhelmed by their performance, mothers also participated by playing games and dancing with the children. In order to make the day memorable for the mothers, children shared their word of gratitude for their mothers and exchanged gifts with them. The chief guest Mr./Ms………………. honored the mothers. A movie & dinner out for the Mothers was organized.
A loving home for every child
On the special occasion of Mothers’ Day, Ms. Anuja Bansal, Secretary General of SOS Children’s Villages of India said, “At the core of everything we do are our mothers. lsalute every mother in the SOS Family for her relentless hard work and the selfless love and care that she provides to her children.It is this commitment from our mothers that helps shape lives of all the children at SOS Children’s villages of India and makes them into confident contributing citizens of the society. I thank you on behalf of all everyone in the SOS India Family!”
About SOS Children’s Villages of India
With 51 years of committed care and service provided to parentless and underprivileged children, SOS Children’s Villages of India is one of the largest self-implementing NGOs with pan India presence across 32 projects in 22 states. Itprovides direct care to over 24,000 children. Established in 1964, SOS India is a non-government, non-profit, voluntary child care organization. It has since been involved in providing children in distress a ‘home-like’ environment with a loving mother, brothers and sisters, as well as a home and a community. The mission of the SOS Children’s Villages of India is to build families for children without parental care so that they grow up with love, respect & security. It is a well-known credible organization in India and the first NGO to get a CRISIL accreditation for strong delivery capability and high financial proficiency. In March 2016, SOS India was certified by TRACE, world’s leading anti-bribery standard setting organization, which demonstrates a commitment to commercial transparency. For more information please visit:
About SOS Children’s Village – Bangalore
The project was established in 1989. There are16 loving family homes for 267 children. They create a serene, caring and positive environment that helps build a solid emotional foundation for children growing in the village. The village also has youth houses for boys; Arunodya is for school-going youth, Sopan is for youth undergoing vocational and professional courses and Gharonda for youth who are in the process of settling down. As on today 123 youngsters have moved out and got settled. Altogether, there are 84 boys in these youth houses. SOS Bangalore is also strengthening 269 BPL families and reaching out directly or indirectly to over 515 children in 6 localities of Bangalore.
Contacts:
SOS Children’s Village Bangalore SOS India _Media contact:
Mr. Madhusudhan RaoMs. Tsering D. Kartsang
903501279909899000820
A loving home for every child