Sponsor a child in the Middle East
In the Middle East, war can leave children traumatised and at risk of being abandoned or orphaned. Poverty is also an issue which can leave children in need of help.
SOS Children works across the Middle East, providing a mother and home for children in our SOS Children's Villages across the region. We also provide community based care including healthcare and education to children and families in areas where children are at risk.
Child sponsorship gives a child in the Middle East a chance to live a better life and helps a child overcome any trauma and associated psychological conditions they may have faced. Living in an SOS Children's Village gives children the love and support of a mother, a home, education and healthcare. We work in the following countries in the Middle East:
SOS Middle East Child Sponsorship
Israel
At present we support over 300 people in Israel through two SOS Children’s Villages (Neradim and Migdal Haemek) , three SOS Youth Homes, and two SOS Social Centres.
Jordan
The charity began its work in Jordan in Amman. There are now three SOS Children's Villages in the country. In 2003, SOS Children established an Emergency Relief Programme in Ruwayshid in western Jordan providing food, medicine and temporary accommodation for refugees from the war in neighbouring Iraq.
Lebanon
We have been working in the Lebanon since 1966. We now operate four SOS Children's Villages in the country, one, Bhersaf, is near to the capital Beirut. An SOS Social Centre in Mkallès near Beirut, is run to help strengthen family ties and reduce levels of child abandonment.
Palestinian Autonomous Area
SOS Children built its first SOS Children's Village in the Palestinian Autonomous Area, in the historic biblical town of Bethlehem in the West Bank in 1968. The Village has 14 family houses for 126 orphaned and abandoned children. In 1999, following three years of negotiation with the Palestinian authorities, a site close to Rafah- Gaza, in the south-west of the Gaza Strip, was given to SOS Children's Villages for a new Village.
Syria
We began working in Syria in 1981 when the first community was built in Qodsaya, 8 km from the capital Damascus. On the side of a hill on the road towards Lebanon, the village has eleven family houses which are home to 108 children. Despite the arid and rocky conditions, trees, vines and shrubs have been planted to provide protection against the wind and sand, and flowers and even lawns have also been successfully established. We continue to help families affected by the ongoing civil war.
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