SOS Children's Village
Mogadishu

SOS Children’s Villages has been present in Somalia since 17th December 1985, providing quality care for children who have lost parental care or are at risk of losing it. Due to ongoing political instability, prolonged drought, and rising poverty, the number of children in need has continued to grow.

Since its inception, SOS Children's Village Mogadishu has supported 386 children without parental care, with 248 successfully reintegrated into their communities. Today, the alternative care program continues to provide a stable, family-like environment to 190 children, in line with the mission and vision of SOS Children’s Villages.

 

 

The alternative care program in Mogadishu provides SOS family care (family-like care), foster care, kinship, and community-integrated Families and youth support. It offers children a nurturing family environment, living allowances, education, and life skills to prepare them for independent and self-reliant futures.

Key stakeholders and partners include children, parents, foster parents, child development co-workers, foster families, local community groups and leaders, CSOs working on child protection, public care institutions, educational institutions, and government authorities.

To ensure the sustainability of alternative care, the program team continues to equip children, young people, and caregivers with essential skills and knowledge, fostering their independence and responsibility. Additionally, the program actively promotes stakeholder engagement, participation, and collaboration to strengthen its impact.

SOS Somalia Youth Care Program started on the year 1996 and was functioning for the last twenty-four years. The young people in the Youth Care Program transit from the SOS Family Care houses to the youth care program at the ages between 14-16 years after undergoing transitional training program before re-integrating to their families of origin.

The program helps the young people to make use of their potentials and achieve their individual development goals through acquiring hard and soft skills that lead them to be responsible adults.

They young people get the opportunity for counseling, mentoring and close follow-up from their parents, relatives and SOS Youth Care Co-workers so that they smoothly reach self-reliance.

They young people get empowerment and participation focused programs that puts the best interest of the young people in the centre of the planning and programming for all the matters that affects their lives and futures.

As part of strengthening the young people participation and giving them a space and influence in decisions that affects their lives, they are invited in planning and evaluation meetings of the organization.

In addition to care and after care support the young people get education and vocational skills training programs, employability and entrepreneurship programs. We impart education, social and life skills training to the young people for their preparation of an independent and autonomous life.

 

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Contact SOS Children's Village Mogadishu
 

Mr. Hussein Farah

Alternative care Coordinator

 

SOS Children’s Village Mogadishu
PO Box 599
Heliwa
Mogadishu

Mobile: +252 615 581770
Email: hussein.farah@sossomalia.org

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