Peace Project Caldonazzo
The topic of “peace” has a long history within SOS Children's Villages: Hermann Gmeiner promoted the interrelation between peace and SOS Children's Villages at several occasions. He called the first family house in Imst "House of Peace".
Actually, a lot of the work of SOS Children’s Villages can be defined as "peace education”, since one major objective of our work is to support children and young people to live in inner peace – which is a basic precondition to interact peacefully with others.
At the international SOS holiday camp Caldonazzo/Italy, the participation project “Peace” took place in July 2008.
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Peace Project Caldonazzo
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Project Seeing beyond violence
The aim of the project was to find out how children from different cultural backgrounds define non-violent space where they feel safe and secure and to use the results to enhance safe spaces within their direct environment as well as the wider community.
To learn from participating children (with traumatic violence experience) about their concept of violence, non-violence and violence prevention within diverse cultural settings. The aim was to find out how children from different cultural backgrounds define non-violent space where they feel safe and secure and to use the results to enhancing safe spaces within their direct environment as well as the wider community.
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Seeing beyond violence
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Project Child Protection
From the beginning, SOS Children’s Villages has been committed to the well-being and safety of children. In the year 2005, the decision was taken to develop a clear strategy to protect children living within SOS Children’s Village programs from any harm, abuse and neglect: “We stand against the sexual, physical and psychological abuse of children regardless of culture; it is simply not part of the SOS Children's Village movement and people around the world must look to make sure that no child is harmed!” (Helmut Kutin, president of SOS Children’s Villages). An international Child Protection Team was formed with representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Their main task was to develop an SOS Child Protection Policy together with an Implementation Plan.
In 28 pilot countries awareness building workshops with SOS co-workers, children and young people have taken place. In cooperation with external experts various initiatives are being planned to bring this cross-cutting issue into a transparent transformation process. The first aim is to break the taboo and talk about a global fact: child abuse, neglect and maltreatment are a reality in all the countries around the globe. Prevention is our long-term aim.
Child Protection
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