SPONSOR A CHILD IN ASIA with SOS Children’s Villages who provide homes and families for orphan children in 26 Asian and Middle Eastern countries.

The charity has been active in Asia since 1965 and has recently developed five new villages for children left orphaned by the 2004 tsunami.

You can choose to SPONSOR A CHILD in any of the following 26 countries:

SPONSOR A CHILD IN ASIA – Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam.

SPONSOR A CHILD IN THE MIDDLE EAST / EURASIA – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Uzbekistan.

Sponsor a Child in Asia

The first SOS Children’s Villages association in Asia was opened in South Korea in 1963. The sensational ‘Rice Grain’ fundraising campaign made it possible to open a village in Daegu for Korean War orphans two years later, which was the first SOS Children’s Village outside of Europe.

The family-based concept was integrated smoothly into the cultural context of most Asian countries.

India now has the most SOS Children’s Villages in the world. There are also eight SOS Children’s Villages for Tibetan children, two of which, Dharamsala and Leh-Ladakh, are the biggest in the world. Nepal also has villages and facilities specifically for Tibetan children, who grow up according to their own culture and religion and speaking their own language. Since 2000 there has even been an SOS Children’s Village in Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region and there are nine in total in China.