A LOVING HOME FOR EVERY CHILD

WHY we are needed...

FAMILIES are not supported in time.

Over 90 000 CHILDREN need support from child welfare.THL 2014

In Finland NEARLY 18 000 children can’t live with their own families. THL 2014

WHAT is the focus of our activities…

We believe that every child needs a loving home to flourish in and we help families in Finland and around the world to make it happen.

VISION: Every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect and security.

MISSION: SOS Children’s Villages Finland helps children and adolescents to grow up in a family both in Finland and around the world.

Every child is unique,

and so is the way we work...

Whatever we do, the well-being of children and families is at the

centre.

We support families at early stage before problems are too severe.

We provide individualized and tailored support for children and families.

Siblings can stay together.

We provide strong support for youth in the transition from care to independent living.

We work in close cooperation with communities and partners.

We work with different types of families:

Biological Families SOS

Families Foster Families

HOW do we help…

• We organize family cafes

• We provide trainings and seminars

• We offer hobbies and camping activities

Preventative measuresSOS Finland is supporting families at early stage.

• Family work and family rehabilitation

• Support family and support person

• Camps for children and families

• Support for hobbies and studies

• Theraplay-therapy

• Supported and monitored visits

SOS Finland offers diverse open care services for over 100 children each month.

Open care

Around 170 children are placed on SOS families, foster families and youth facility.

• Foster families (training and support)

• Family based care in SOS Children‘s Villages

• Institutional care in youth facility (+ home school)

Foster care

Support for adolescents and young adults

• Accommodation trials

• After care

• Follow-up care (support for young adults older than 21 years)

• Group homes in Espoo, Jyväskylä and Haapajärvi for children under 16 years.

• The group homes offer immediate protection, safety and care.

SOS Finland is helping unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.

Group homes

• Tapiola in Espoo (1966)• Punkaharju (1972) • Jyväskylä (1974)• Ylitornio (1979) • Vihanti (1982) • Kaarina (2003)• Tampere (2012)• Central Office in Helsinki

SOS Children’s Villages Finland was founded in 1962.

SOS Finland

HOW do we advocate in the society…

We promote and advocate for children‘s rights.

Advocacy

• We encourage decision-makers to bear responsibility for children and families in vulnerable situations.

• We create partnerships with municipalities, organizations and other actors.

• We support participation of children and adolescents.

Family and it‘s needs have to be put at the centre. We search for solutions together with municipalities.

New model to support families

Provide support based on needs of the family - not the system.

From shattered services into solutions that take into account individialized needs of the family.

We develop SOS Finland’s acitivities and know-how as a provider of preventative measures and as a contributor for well-being.

SOS Finland will be an important partner for municipalities.

SOS Finland raises funds to help children and families in Finland and around the world.

How to support SOS activities

• Sporadic donations• Monthly donors for

SOS work in Finland• Child sponsors for

international SOS work• Legacies• Cooperation with corporates• Funding from foundations

Where the money comes from

77%

14%

7%1% 1%

SOS Finland, revenues 2014

Care fees, 12 298 700 €

Revenues from fundraising, 2 311 800 €

Revenues from investment and fund-ing activity, 1 073 500 €

Grants, 154 000 €

Other revenues, 214 200 €

Expenditures by type

57%28%

9%

1%5%

SOS Finland, expenses 2014

Personnel expenses, 9 193 700 €

User fees, 4 420 500 €

Homes' care expenses, 1 452 800 €

Investment and funding activity expenses, 137 200 €

Other expenses, 790 200 €

HOW we help around the world…

151 MILLION children worldwidehave lost one or both parents.UNICEF 2011

We work with children, families, communities and states to prevent family breakdown and ensure that every child's right to family, protection, education and health care are fulfilled.

SOS Children‘s Villages International

• Family Strengthening

• Family-based child care

• Education and life skills

• Health care

• Emergency response

• Child rights advocacy

The first SOS Children‘s Village was built in Imst, Austria in 1949.

Nowadays SOS Children‘s Villages is working in 134 countries and territories around the world.

SOS Children’s Villages globally

Where the children live410,800 children, youth and parents globally*

Latin America Africa &

Middle East

Asia

Western Europe& North America

Central & Eastern Europe, CIS, Baltics

* in SOS Children‘s Villages, youth programmes and family strengthening programmes

160,400101,600

21,200

18,100

109,500

”All the children of the world are our children.”(Hermann Gmeiner, founder of SOS Children’s Villages)

SOS Finland‘s supports for global activities

• SOS child sponsors• Development cooperation

funded with support of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs

• Economic support for SOS organizations in developing countries

• Emergency fundraising

”Just imagine, how much there is space for love in this world we are living in!” Albin Gebhardt, Founder of SOS Children‘s Villages Finland

www.sos-lapsikyla.fiwww.sos-childrensvillages.org