Giving orphans a brighter future annual review 2005 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to be bringing you the 2005 As a result of your kind donations, we have raised From a fundraising perspective, our decision to Chief Executive’s report Chief Executive’s Annual Report for SOS Children’s Villages. enough money to construct the fi rst SOS shift emphasis to the internet has been very Ongoing work to restore lives after the tsunami Children’s Village funded entirely by UK successful, with more than a thousand new on Boxing Day 2004; the G8 summit and renewed supporters. The SOS Children’s Village Basse, sponsors and many donations coming in during commitments for Africa; and the devastating in The Gambia will create a new home for 2005 and into 2006. The cost of fi nding new Kashmir earthquake meant that 2005 brought orphaned, abandoned and destitute children. We donors via the internet is less than 1p per more challenges for SOS Children. It goes are also constructing a new SOS Primary School pound received and we continue to grow very without saying, that along with these priorities, we in Basse which will help educate 420 children inexpensively. As a result we achieved the unusual continued to care for the 60,000 children living aged 6-12 in an area where schooling is almost feat of doubling our income in 2005 from 2004! in our children’s villages and were able also to non-existent. We would particularly like to thank those other support almost a million in the community. Following the Kashmir earthquake on 8 October supporters who have helped this by linking to our 2005, SOS Children has provided support to website and generating traffi c to Our post-tsunami work was awarded top marks www.soschildren.org by UN-Habitat during a post-event evaluation thousands of affected people and will continue of work carried out in the centre of the tsunami to do so for the long-term through our unique With Best Wishes region at Banda Aceh, Indonesia, (only a third of children’s villages. Pervez Musharraf, President of agencies studied achieved this). In our review we Pakistan, commented in an interview that look at our post-tsunami work and see how lives “SOS Children’s Villages is the best custodian of our Kashmiri children”. have been rebuilt. Andrew Cates SOS Children has had villages in Pakistan for thirty Chief Executive years and supported families since the earthquake SOS Children’s Villages UK by providing essential supplies and shelter.

2 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans 2005 saw reduced costs for SOS Children and a doubling of our UK income

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SOS Children’s work is centred around four basic principles:

SOS Mothers caring 365 Brothers and sisters Our Approach Our days of the year staying together

• Strong and caring relationships Children are cared for by SOS Mothers, trained to deal with all situations, giving love to children who have lost their parents • The right to grow up together After ups and downs children need the stability or a loving environment, growing up together with brothers and sisters

The SOS family SOS Children’s Villages – part of the wider community preparing for the future

• Being part of the larger community Through SOS social support programmes, medical • A place to call home centres and schools preparing youngsters for their future independence. Children can grow up and live according to their own culture and religion, preparing them for the future

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Our Vision Our vision is that every child should grow with love, respect and security

Our Mission Who we are We build families for children SOS Children pioneered a family-based We help children who are orphaned, in need, approach to the long-term care of orphaned abandoned or whose families are unable We give orphaned and abandoned children and abandoned children who had lost their to care for them. We give these children the opportunity to grow up with the love families and homes as a result of the Second an opportunity to build lasting relationships and security of an SOS Mother, together with World War. within a family and ensure that they receive brothers and sisters Traditionally, we provide our children with a the education and skills training that they need to become successful and contributing help them shape their own futures, home, a family and a new mother in a purpose- members of society. We enable children to live according to their built local children’s village. However, the sheer own culture and religion. By helping them to number of orphans has led us to fi nd new ways recognise and express their individual abilities, of supporting child-headed families. interests and talents, they can become active members of the community. We look after children who have lost their parents through war, famine, disease and and share in the development poverty. In total we care for over 60,000 of their communities. children directly in children’s villages and we We work with local communities to establish support more than 900,000 in the community support programmes and provide healthcare through SOS schools, vocational training centres, and education, strengthening families and social support programmes and medical centres. community networks for the future.

5 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans Restricted Unrestricted Total Total Summary of Accounts Year Respective responsibilities fund fund funds 2005 funds 2004 ending 2005 of trustees and auditors ££££ On the right is an extract from the The trustees are responsible for INCOMING RESOURCES fi nancial statements of SOS Children’s preparing the summary fi nancial Voluntary income 2,289,701 780,894 3,070,595 1,345,390 Villages UK and do not represent the statements. Our responsibility is to Activities for generating funds 165,165 20,457 185,622 51,102 full accounts that were submitted report to you our opinion on the Investment income 33,217 33,217 12,426 to the Charity Commission. The consistency of the summary fi nancial TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 2,454,866 834,568 3,289,434 1,408,918 FinancialStatement statutory fi nancial statements have statements with the full fi nancial Less cost of generating funds: been externally examined and an statements and the trustees report. Costs of generating voluntary income 401,923 401,923 299,215 unqualifi ed audit report has been Basis of Opinion Fundraising trading 19,734 19,734 13,541 issued. The annual accounts were Sponsorship and support of orphans approved by the Trustees on We conducted our work in and children’s villages 804,301 167,555 971,856 788,499 14th August 2006 and have been accordance with International Governance 96,661 96,661 112,754 submitted to the Charity Commission. Standards in Auditing (UK & Ireland) TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 804,301 685,873 1,490,174 1,214,009 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. A copy of the full report and accounts Transfers between funds 39,404 -39,404 is available on request from SOS Opinion NET MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS 1,689,969 109,291 1,799,260 194,909 Children’s Villages UK. In our opinion the summary fi nancial BALANCES BROUGHT FORWARD statements are consistent with the AT 1 JANUARY 2005 661,214 -412,492 248,722 53,813 full fi nancial statements and trustees BALANCES CARRIED FORWARD report of SOS Children’s Villages UK AT 31 DECEMBER 2005 2,351,183 -303,201 2,047,982 248,722 Mary Cockcroft, Chairman of Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2005. BALANCE SHEET AT 31 DECEMBER 2005 Auditors’ report to the Trustees ASSETS 2005 2004 Peters Elworthy & Moore Fixed Assets 44,670 45,268 of SOS Children’s Villages UK Registered Auditors We have examined the summary 14 August 2006 Current Assets fi nancial statements, which comprise Stocks 96 6,099 the summary statement of fi nancial Net assets held at branches 9,092 13,914 activities and summary balance sheet. Accrued income 161,348 122,636 Debtors and prepayments 17,828 27,883 Cash at bank and in hand 2,094,152 318,675 Bankers For every £1 donated during the year to 31 Barclays Bank plc, Chesterton Road, December 2005, 86p was used to support 2,282,516 489,207 Cambridge CB4 3AZ projects and to provide sponsorship to children LIABILITIES CAF Cash, Kings Hill, West Malling, and villages. 14p was spent on the management Creditors due within one year 58,326 30,633 and administration of the charity. Kent ME19 4JA Net current assets 2,224,190 458,574 Solicitors Mills and Reeve, Francis House, Hills Road, Creditors due after more than one year 220,678 254,920 Cambridge CB2 1PH Net assets 2,048,182 248,922

Independent Auditors FUNDS Peters Elworthy and Moore, Station Road, Trust Capital 200 200 Cambridge, CB1 2LA (as at August 2006) Unrestricted -303,201 -412,492 Restricted 2,351,183 661,214 2,048,182 248,922 6 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans An increase in the numbers of donations in 2005 means we are nearing our target of supporting 80,000 orphans by 2008

7 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans Education Educating for the future In many countries where we work, local Peter Hawkins, our representative at MLIM, was which will be closely linked to the new village, will educational facilities are poor. SOS Children will able to visit Malawi in June 2005 to gain a better provide education to 320 local children between often run nursery schools, primary and secondary understanding of SOS operations. During his trip, the ages of 6 and 15 and give them the skills schools not only for children living in the SOS Peter visited established SOS villages and schools, and knowledge they need to become successful, Children’s Village but also for children from the accompanied SOS medical staff on their rounds contributing members of the community. local community, with priority given to children to local villages and spent a day in Blantyre at Jeremy Sandbrook, National Director of SOS from the poorest families. Teaching is tailored the site of our new village and school. “Having Children’s Villages Malawi was not short of according to the local community and culture, the opportunity to tour SOS operations in thanks, “On behalf of SOS Malawi, I would like with the aim of developing children’s skills through Malawi, under the experience and care of local to thank Merrill Lynch – and in particular Peter play (SOS Nurseries) and through the in-country SOS staff, was a once in a lifetime experience. Hawkins and the Charity Committee – for the curriculum (SOS Primary and Secondary Schools). I returned to the UK in awe of the work of fundraising they have done in supporting the Malawi these dedicated people and enthused about construction of the SOS Primary School Blantyre. the fund-raising challenges which lay ahead.” In 2005, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers Limited Without the selfl ess dedication and support (MLIM), the UK fund management arm of Merrill Following a year of fund-raising at MLIM, which of people such as these, we would not be able Lynch & Co., Inc. - one of the world’s leading included a highly successful auction of senior to continue the work that we do here on the fi nancial services providers - chose SOS Children management promises/forfeits, the sale of fl owers ground; that is supporting the most innocent as their Charity of the Year and committed to fund from the Merrill Lynch garden at the Chelsea and vulnerable group of them all – children.” the construction of a new SOS school at the SOS Flower Show, a Last Hour Payroll Giving Appeal SOS Children currently runs 192 schools around the Children’s Village in Blantyre, Malawi. and some extraordinary individual contributions, globe, providing over 93,000 children with an education staff raised over £130,000. The MLIM Charitable to which they would otherwise have no access. SOS Children’s proposal for a school in Malawi, a Trust matched staff donations of £50,000. country crippled by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and in which over 65% of the population lives below the In 2005, in response to the increasingly diffi cult poverty line, met MLIM’s selection criteria of having social situation and the ever-growing numbers of an education and child bias and was likely to appeal orphans, SOS Children began the construction of the to MLIM employees based throughout Europe, the country’s third SOS Children’s Village in Blantyre, in Middle East and Asia Pacifi c. the south of the country. The MLIM-funded school,

8 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans Over 320 children at Blantyre, Malawi will benefi t from the new SOS Primary School

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A healthy future SOS Medical Centres play an important role Monetary crises and government corruption surgery, an x-ray and ultrasound laboratory and a within the community, offering HIV/AIDS testing have hampered Paraguay’s social and economic ward with three incubators and two heated beds and counselling, running information campaigns development. Around 60% of the population for premature babies. We work in conjunction on the risks of infection and providing free or offi cially live in poverty and 14% of children have with the local health authority regarding complex inexpensive ARV (anti-retroviral) medication. As stunted growth caused by malnutrition. The rural cases. Twice a week, a civil servant from the Civil well as these key elements, SOS Medical Centres population suffer most: subsistence agriculture Registry visits to offi cially record new births. provide basic medical care for the local population does not bring in an income and health services Health education classes are run at the clinic through vaccination programmes, maternity are scarce. This is the case in San Ignacio, a small to give local people the knowledge they need facilities and guidance on nutrition and hygiene. district in the south of the country. to keep themselves healthy and safe. Adults, The SOS Mother and Child Clinic in San Ignacio both young and old, are educated about SOS Mother and Child Clinic, San supports 25,000 people a year, some of whom sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV/AIDS, Ignacio, Paraguay come from as far as 60 miles away for treatment. reproductive health, pregnancy and gender equality. Although the clinic is well-known, local radio is The clinic provides reproductive health services to Infant and maternal mortality rates are high in used to inform people about it and its services. anyone from the community who needs them. Paraguay. Many women and young children, Radio is a successful way of communicating in rural especially those in rural areas, do not have Alongside the Mother and Child Clinic in San areas being easily accessible and able to convey access to health services, midwives, doctors or Ignacio, there are two SOS Children’s Villages in information regardless of literacy. paediatricians. One quarter of births are not Paraguay, one of which is for children with special attended by a skilled professional. SOS Children’s There are fi ve examination rooms at the SOS needs, in addition to an SOS Youth Home, an SOS Villages built Paraguay’s fi rst Mother and Child clinic, alongside 62 beds (24 of which are for Nursery School and an SOS Vocational Training Clinic in 1978 and has since opened two more. infants), a laboratory and a pharmacy. There is also Centre offering nursing courses. a delivery room, an operating theatre for minor

10 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans Over 25,000 people supported in the local community through the SOS Medical Clinic in San Ignacio, Paraguay

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A future through family strengthening SOS Children is best known for its villages, which have become widespread, with as many as The SOS Playbus scheme, which is very provide orphaned and abandoned children 123,000 drug-dependent people currently living in popular all over Eastern Europe, provides

Family Strengthening with a new family and home and the love and Ukraine. Related to drug abuse is the equally high educational activities to over 3,000 children. security that come with them. However, in order prevalence of HIV/AIDS within the country. An In response to the large numbers of children to support thousands more children and their estimated 1.4% of the population is HIV positive, experimenting with drugs and the severe lack families, we also work with communities and ranking as the highest within both Europe and of facilities at their disposal, SOS Children also vulnerable families to provide them with the the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). opened an HIV/AIDS counselling centre for this skills and support they need to continue caring Forty percent of those infected with HIV/AIDS at-risk group and their parents. The main target for their children and prevent family break-up. are women, and as many as 97% of HIV-positive groups are single parent, particularly female- These community support programmes take children were infected through their mothers. headed, families; families living below the poverty many different guises, from vocational training People living with the disease in Ukraine continue line; and families where one or both parents suffer programmes and counselling for addiction, to to suffer from stigmatisation and discrimination from a terminal disease. Almost 2,000 people support for single-parent families. because of a lack of information regarding have benefi ted from the centre’s support through transmission, prevention and treatment. training sessions on child rights, hygiene, sexual Ukraine As a result, many parents fi nd themselves unable education and prevention of substance, drug to care for their children, and according to and alcohol misuse as well as through personal Independence from the USSR has been a mixed government statistics the number of abandoned development support to overcome crisis situations bag for Ukraine. Although economic growth children has reached 50,000. Many children and control emotions. has slowly improved in recent years, the social therefore end up living on the streets and often Through partnerships with other local NGOs, situation during this transition period remains far become victims of drug and solvent abuse. Some from ideal. Furthermore, the country still suffers SOS Children is helping around 400 children in turn to prostitution, putting them at a greater risk the prevention of abandonment project and an from the tragic nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in of contracting HIV. April 1986. More than 3.5 million people became additional 60 children through the HIV/AIDS ill due to contamination, and new cases of cancer SOS Children’s work in Ukraine began in the consultation centre. Four schools are also directly are continually being reported. capital Kiev in 2003, targeting poorer households to involved in the prevention of HIV/AIDS work. The support families through diffi cult times and prevent fi rst SOS Children’s Village in Ukraine is under This diffi cult social and economic situation has the abandonment of children. In Kiev, many families construction on the outskirts of Kiev. resulted in a negative outlook among much of the receive food and household packages. Ukrainian population. Alcoholism and drug abuse

12 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans The SOS Family Strengthening Programme in Kiev has been preventing child abandonment since 2004

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At the heart of the SOS An estimated 10,000 orphaned and abandoned the city centre) on a plot of land donated by the Children’s Village children are reported to live on the capital government. The fi rst families moved into the An SOS Children’s Village provides a loving family N’Djamena’s streets where they are exposed to village in early 2005 and all twelve family houses to children in need. To deal with increasing drugs, alcohol and prostitution. are now fully occupied with a total of 120 children. numbers of children orphaned as a result of the Because of its roofs, which are unique to the area, SOS Children is the fi rst NGO to offer long-term neighbours nicknamed the village the ‘red roof area’. Pakistan earthquake or in cases where children family-based care for children in need in Chad. have been abandoned, we provide a new home The new village symbolises the hope of an entire Near the village, there are three more SOS complete with an SOS Mother and brothers and nation. Mr Hassan Terap, the Minister for Social Children projects in the area, aimed mainly at sisters. Children are able to grow confi dently and Action and Family, said “SOS Children’s Village supporting children from the local communities successfully in their own societies. N’Djamena is an answer to the government’s around the capital. An SOS Nursery School with a concern about the well-being of children in capacity of 60 children and an SOS Primary School Africa Chad. It is like a precious jewel which has to be for some 180 pupils opened their doors at the preserved very carefully. It means a signifi cant start of the new school year on 10 October 2005. The Saharan state of Chad, in northern Africa, is contribution to our efforts in improving the An SOS Medical Centre will support thousands home to over 9.5 million people and is one of the living conditions of the most vulnerable people in the local community by offering free fi rst aid, poorest countries in the world. Thirty years of civil in general and the children in particular.” general medicines and consultations as well as war had a devastating impact on the country’s social, specifi c consultations in dermatology, paediatrics economic and medical infrastructure and its children. SOS Children’s Village N’Djamena is located in the and gynaecology to around 600 patients a month. Diguel district (about 15 minutes away from

14 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans The fi rst SOS Children’s Village in Chad offers a future to children formerly exposed to drugs, alcohol and prostitution.

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Rebuilding for the future Tsunami Speed, in the course of an emergency, is vital. 11,500 people. Over 1,120 families benefi ted SOS Children provided over 1,000 tents for However, those affected by natural disasters from the provision of 343 fi shing boats together temporary shelter to families during the harsh including tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts with all necessary equipment to survive and Kashmir winter and into 2006. Following the need support over weeks, months and even years. rebuild their livelihoods. disaster, tented hospitals supported immediate

Emergency Relief Programmes Emergency The largest operation of this kind carried out by Day care centres provided child care support, efforts in the mountainous region, which did not SOS Children was in response to the South Asian allowing parents to start rebuilding their lives. have a single permanent hospital, assisting 120,000 tsunami of 2004, where over 23,000 people have Multi-purpose community centres will take over people and SOS ‘Search and Rescue’ teams received support and 800 children, orphaned by this role by housing nurseries. 18 centres are due looked for unaccompanied children, orphaned the tsunami, will fi nd love, security and a new family for completion by the end of 2006 and, alongside or separated from their families. As a result of in six new SOS Children’s Villages in the region. child care, will offer medical services, training and our work, the Pakistan and Kashmir authorities Despite the diffi cult conditions at the time, family support. These are being built in such a way appointed us the temporary legal custodian of Cedric de Silva, National Director of SOS that they can serve as safe shelters in the event of all unaccompanied children after the earthquake. Children Sri Lanka commented: “We never another fl ood. Once completed and operational, the Some children have been reunited with their thought that we could reach this many people administration of the centres will be handed over to families while others are cared for at a number of so quickly.” Reconstruction is progressing step the communities, empowering the local people and SOS Children’s Villages and shelters in and around by step. SOS Children has the advantage of ensuring the sustainability of the projects.. Kashmir. having well-established local links and many years The goal now is to arrive at a tangible outlook for Of a total of 11,500 schools in and around of experience working in partnership with local the future, brick by brick. Muzaffarabad, 10,000 were destroyed. Some SOS communities. “The people are trying to come tents were used as temporary schools, while future to terms with the situation and they fi nd ways plans are to build permanent schools. Additional Pakistan and means to begin anew, however humble their plans include new SOS Children’s Villages providing attempts may be,” says Shubha Murthi, Regional Over 73,000 people were killed and thousands a long term future to children who lost everything Director of SOS Children for South Asia. made homeless on 8 October 2005 as a result of on that fateful day. an earthquake that ripped through Kashmir. The Fifteen communities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India SOS Children’s Village Muzzaffarabad in northern and Thailand were ‘adopted’ by SOS Children and Pakistan was badly damaged but fortunately no almost 2,200 houses are under construction for children were injured.

16 www.soschildren.org – Give hope to orphans Speed is vital in an emergency. Long after the TV cameras have gone SOS Children’s Villages is there to provide a lifelong partnership.

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Our thanks Amici Forever, performers at Classic Response supporting the construction of the new village Our unique work, caring for orphaned and and child sponsors added: “We are delighted being built in Rustenburg, as part of 6 Supporters abandoned children, would not be possible to be involved and really want to do anything villages for 2006. without our supporters. SOS Children has we can to help raise funds for the appeal. We Celtic Manager Strachan commented: “I am very been fortunate enough to work with a number just hope that everyone continues to give over honoured and proud to be asked to be the of different companies, trusts, organisations, the next months and years!” David Elliot, Chief FIFA/SOS Ambassador for Scotland. I will be schools, groups and individuals, to whom we Executive of The added his delighted to offer whatever help I can either as extend our warmest thanks for your assistance, support to the event: “The concert will raise vital a fi gurehead or in a practical way.” Peter Lawwell, encouragement and commitment. These funds for the work of the SOS Children charity Celtic Chief Executive added, “Celtic is proud partnerships allow us to continue helping some of which in turn will help the tens of thousands to work with FIFA and SOS Children on this the world’s most vulnerable children. of children whose lives have been devastated campaign and believes that this work is fully in by the Asian Tsunami.” With the agreement of line with the rich charitable history of Celtic FC.” Schools the Trustees of the Royal Albert Hall, the venue “We became involved with SOS Children and its services were provided free of charge. and United striker Wayne Rooney became an offi cial FIFA/SOS Ambassador because we feel it is a charity that our pupils • World Orphan Week can take to their hearts, learn from and develop in October 2005, pledging his support for a commitment to. This is a really positive way This unique event was launched in October to 6 villages for 2006, saying: “I was made up to get them thinking about who they are, where support our general work caring for orphaned and when SOS Children asked me if I would get they fi t into the ‘bigger picture’ and how they abandoned children. With the support of schools, involved. I know how much it means to have can make a difference.” companies, trusts and groups, World Orphan a family that supports you, so I am delighted Week has become a key part of our fundraising I can give my support to these kids.” Sarah Humphreys - Head Teacher, Kettlefi elds year. Primary School, Cambridgeshire Individuals and Groups Partnerships Supporters across the UK have been growing ‘6 villages for 2006’ – the FIFA World CupTM in their support for SOS Children’s Villages. We Events campaign have had an increase in the number of schools • Classic Response SOS Children’s Villages deepened its partnership and groups supporting our work and linking to our work, as well as individuals raising awareness Event organiser Ed O’Driscoll said of Classic with FIFA to create the World Cup campaign 6 through our growing network of Volunteer Response: “There has been a tremendous villages for 2006, which will provide hundreds of Regional Co-ordinators. response to this concert throughout the classical orphaned and abandoned children around the industry; everybody wants to help by world with a new family home. If you would like more details about working in offering their services. Our sole objective is Support for the campaign has been impressive, partnership with SOS Children, please contact to raise as much money as possible for the with Wayne Rooney, Gordon Strachan, The FA us on 01223 365589 or via email at orphans of the tsunami and SOS Children.” and Celtic Football Club all joining the team and [email protected]

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“We are delighted to be associated with SOS Children’s SOS Ambassadors: Karen Millen Villages and to support them in their work caring for Lord Richard Attenborough Jean-Christophe Novelli orphaned and abandoned children” Sir John Dankworth CBE Wayne Rooney Professor Stephen Hawking Prunella Scales CBE Aled Jones Gordon Strachan Dame Cleo Laine CBE Timothy West CBE Lord Frederick Windsor 19 SOSwww.soschildren.org Children: – Give hope to orphans SOS Children’s Villages UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 365589 Give hope to orphans worldwide St Andrew’s House Fax: +44 (0)1223 365589 Email: [email protected]

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