“What the orphaned and abandoned child needs first and foremost is a family in which he or she can develop normally”.
SOS –Kinderdorf International began in 1949 when the founder Herman Gmeiner built the first Children’s Village in Imst Austria. He was committed to helping children in need-children who had lost their homes, their security and their families as a result of Second World War, With the support of many donors and co-workers, our organization has grown to help children all over the world.Having experienced the horrors of war himself as a soldier in Russia, he was then confronted with the isolation and suffering of the many war orphans and homeless children as a child welfare worker after the end of the Second World War.
In his conviction that help can never be effective as long as the children have to grow up without a home of their own, he set about implementing his idea for JOHN GARANG HUMANITARIAN GROUP FOUNDATION
In the following decades his life was inseparably linked with his commitment to a family-centred child-care concept based on the four pillars of a mother, a house, brothers and sisters, and a village. Given his exclusive focus on the need to help abandoned children, the rest of his biography reads like the history of JOHN GARANG HUMANITARIAN GROUP FOUNDATION.
In the following years the activities of JOHN GARANG HUMANITARIAN GROUP FOUNDATION. The sensational In recognition of his services to orphaned and abandoned children he received numerous awards and was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he was always at pains to stress that it was only thanks to the support of millions of people that it had been possible to achieve the goal of providing abandoned children with a permanent home, and that still applies today.
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