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SOS Children's Villages Botswana
Ninety-seven per cent of the 1.5 million population have access to safe water, and with free primary education over 84 per cent of children are enrolled. However, enormous problems are created by the highest HIV/AIDS infection rate in the world. AIDS orphans under the age of 15 are estimated to number nearly 80,000.
Over 380 children have their home at the SOS Children’s Village Tlokweng, near the capital Gaborone or Francistown, on the Zimbabwean border. In additional at Tlokweng, a vocational training centre teaches tailoring, welding and carpentry providing skills for independence. Children attend local government schools which are in walking distance and younger children access pre-school education through SOS nursery school. A farm at Tlokweng’s provides the village with food and further vocational training opportunities.
www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sponsor-a-child/africa-child-sponsorship/botswana.htm
Continent: Africa
Country: Botswana
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SOS Children’s Villages Benin
High infant and maternal mortality and poor female literacy rates together with acute need for care facilities for orphaned and abandoned children led to the construction of SOS Children’s first community in 1987 at Abomey-Calavi. Today, the village is home to over 100 children. Unique SOS Children’s Villages at Natitingou and Dassa-Zoume are also home to over 190 children between
Over 900 children attend nursery, primary and secondary school through SOS Children in Benin. A lack of schools in Benin, meant a secondary school was built in 2002 adding to the nursery and primary school, for over 400 pupils and specialist facilities for teaching arts and music.
An SOS social centre at Dassa-Zoume runs programmes to help prevent abandonment to 12,000 people each year in the local communities. The social centre focuses on a community AIDS awareness project - AIDS infection rates in Dassa-Zoumé are among the highest in the country.
www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sponsor-a-child/africa-child-sponsorship/benin.htm
Continent: Africa
Country: Benin
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Orphanage (Ora)
ora is responsible for an orphange which is home to 54 children. The orphans receive clothing, food and medical treatment. They take part in public schooling. In the afternoons qualified staff look after the children and help them with their homework. Sewing classes for the girls and shoemaker classes for the boys are also offered at the orphanage.
Continent: Africa
Country: Angola
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