Amú-chìi – We will survive
Just like three out of ten Liberian girls are pregnant each year before the age of 18, Munah*was not ready to become a mother at the age of 15. She used to do well in…
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SOS Children’s Villages responds to failures in safeguarding and governance
Statement from CEO Ingrid Maria Johansen 5 May 2021 SOS Children’s Villages has announced rapid improvements in safeguarding and governance measures following its International Senate meeting of 29 April 2021. SOS Children’s Villages confirms with…
About 100 young people in Liberia participated in a 2-day National Children & Youth Symposium Sponsored by SOS Liberia and MoGCSP
Without doubts, the effects of COVID-19 are devastating, especially on children and young people. While some adults were safe and secured in their homes, it was a complete nightmare for children and young people. Besides…
Helping to strengthen Care: SOS Liberia integrates two-family homes in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County
The change that came with SOS families’ reintegration and relocation to Buchanan … How SOS families are trying to adapt to life in the community and to socially integrate. To improve social and physical…
Supporting Children Learning through COVID-19
Since the Ministry of Education ordered educational facilities across the country closed in a bid to contain the virus, many families found themselves struggling to keep their children’s education on track. To help keep children…
SOS Children’s Villages Liberia partners with US Center for Disease Control and Montserrado County Health Team to provide refresher training on infectious disease prevention and control to healthcare workers.
The training focused on 4 strategic areas – effective use of personal protective equipment (PPE), hand hygiene, patients flow, and laboratory strengthening. The partnership aimed at reducing the risk of healthcare workers contracting coronavirus as…
Food assistance to extremely vulnerable families in our Family Strengthening (FS) Program
Between March and August, 2020, SOS Children’s Villages Liberia embarked on three rounds of food assistance to FS families as part of support to children and families amidst the coronavirus pandemic. It can be recalled…
DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD: A CALL FOR JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE AND A CHILD-FRIENDLY JUSTICE SYSTEM.
PRESS RELEASE: Monrovia, June 16 – SOS Children’s Villages Liberia calls on government, policymakers and organizations working with children to protect their rights and ensure equal access to a child-friendly justice system as African governments…
Anxiety and coping with the pandemic
In Liberia, schools have been closed for several weeks now and children of all ages are at home now due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving SOS mothers no other choice but having to combine doing…
SOS Liberia, Plan International and Save the children: Joining forces to support children affected by COVID-19 outbreak in Liberia.
Even as the coronavirus pandemic terrorizes the world, there’s another global emergency that child protection and child safeguarding organizations can’t afford to abandon. The virus seemed to be moving from slow to fast, as the…