SOS Children’s Villages Lebanon

The Lebanese Association of SOS Children’s Villages is a non-profit private social organization, both politically and denominationally independent.

The first SOS Children’s Village was founded in Imst, Austria, in 1949, in the aftermath of the Second World War. Hermann Gmeiner was devastated by the large number of orphaned and abandoned children. He believed they urgently needed love, security, and a home.

The SOS Children’s Villages have made one simple idea the drive of their entire educational work. They have grown from the assumption that no child can live without a family, that the child needs the family in order to develop and express his physical, mental and spiritual abilities.

Since then, the SOS mission and educational concept have proven to be the first best alternative to a natural family all over the world.

Today, under the leadership of Helmut Kutin, there are SOS Children’s Villages in all five continents; 444 SOS Children’s Villages spread out in 132 countries.