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The SOS Children’s Villages is the world’s largest orphan charity. The SOS Children’s Villages goal is to give a million children a family in the next eight years. This will be a hard goal to break. To the SOS, it doesn’t matter if the children are AIDS orphans, street children, children orphaned by war or child solders. The SOS Children’s Village is an organization that helps kids all over the world find a home to be raised in. Currently the SOS Children’s village has 473 villages running with 123 countries worldwide. The SOS villages are located in every continent but focus on the countries that need the most help like Africa.


 * The SOS Children's Village**

The organization has been in existence since 1949. The founder is Herman Gmeiner. The purpose of the SOS children’s village is to provide a home for orphans. The head quarters are in London England. The organization is all over the world but much assistance is needed in Africa. The SOS Children’s Village is addressing the problem of orphans finding a home. It provides assistance to many countries in Africa. The organization raises money for its efforts by friendly donnersX DONORS. It decides what countries receive more help is the budget. Most of the money collected is not used for overhaed expenses. The people involved feel they should use their own money to get to where they need to go. Well this is the number 1 organization that provides loving children that do not have a home receive 1 and get adopted.??????REVISE I (WE) would rate this organization a ten. It has been doing not just a great job, but an excellent job. This organization has been doing an outstanding job and i (WE) will donate some money (when i get some spare change--OMIT?)
 * How long has the organization been in business?**
 * Who founded the organization?**
 * What is its purpose?**
 * Where is it headquartered?**
 * Does it just provide assistance to Africa, or is it active all over the world?**
 * What problem is it addressing?**
 * Does it provide assistance to just 1 or several countries in Africa?**
 * How much of the money it collects for Africa is used for overhead (expenses)?**
 * Have the reviews of your organization's efforts been favorable or critical, i.e., what kind of a "report card" has it been getting?**
 * How would you rate your organization's efforts? Has it done "a good job?"**
 * Do you think donating money to your organization is worthwhile?**

Our country is Sudan. Sudan has a population of around 40,000,000. Sudan's GDP per captia is 2,200. Sudan has 13.62 billion dollars in exports, and 7.76 billion dollars in imports. Africa has many resources including the following, petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold, and hydropower. The main ethnic groups and and religions are Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Indegenous beliefs. They have an unemployment rate oof 18.7 % and a literaacy rate of 61%. The life expectancy in sudan is 50 years old with a infant mortality rate of 8.6 %.In SUdan 52% of the population is black ,39% Arab, 6% Beja, 2% foriegners, and 1% other. Name of country: Sudan
 * AFRICAN COUNTRY RESEARCH**

Population size (2008) – 40,218,456

Per capita GDP: 2,200

Main exports: $13.62 billion

Main imports: $7.757 billion

Resources: petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold, hydropower

Unemployment rate:18.7 %

Infant mortality rate: 8.6 %

Life expectancy:50 years

Literacy rate: 61 %

Human Development Index (HDI): 0.526

Ethnic groups: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%

Main Religions: Muslim, Christian, and indigenous beliefs

Works Cited 1A1: Sudan Page @Sudan.Net. 17 Mar. 2009 . "African Studies Center | Sudan Page." African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. 2 Mar. 2009 . African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. 3 Mar. 2009 . "CIA Site Redirect &mdash; Central Intelligence Agency." Welcome to the CIA Web Site &mdash; Central Intelligence Agency. 4 Mar. 2009 . Flags of the World. 5 Mar. 2009 . "Index of /images." Worst city in the world violent cities towns places to live. 4 Mar. 2009 . Madhi, Dairat E. "Sudan - Overview." SOS childrens village. 3 Mar. 2009 . 2 Mar. 2009 . 1 Mar. 2009 . SOS Children's Villages - A loving home for every child. 12 Mar. 2009 . SOS Children's Villages - A loving home for every child. 17 Mar. 2009 . SOS Children's Villages - A loving home for every child. 16 Mar. 2009 . "Sudan : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress." American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. 17 Mar. 2009 . "Sudan:." Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research & homework help. &mdash; Infoplease.com. 3 Mar. 2009 . WaterSecretsBlog. 16 Mar. 2009 .

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flags/int-sosc.html || This is the logo of the SOS Children's Village. This organization helps to provide homes, schooling, and food which are given to the orphans. The SOS Children has villages all over the world for homeless children. This is the world's largest orphan charity. Their goal is to give a million kids a home in 8 years. That will be a hard goal to reach without the help of sponsoring families. || CIA_Maps/Sudan_19884.gif || Even though the SOS Children Village has so many villages in so many countries. We have decided to focus in on the SOS Children's Village's activities in Sudan. Sudan is the biggest country in Africa with many people in poverty. It is also under Egypt, east of Chad and west of Ethiopia. More than 400,00 people are living with AIDS in Sudan. With that many people sick, a lot of kids parents can not take care of them or have died from diseases. Children are left uncared for or on the streets. || child-soldier-sudan-africa.jpg || Here is a picture of a child drafted into the army carrying a weapon probably before he even had a good understanding on war. A big issue in Sudan is that children are becoming soldiers in armies. Over 250,000 children under 18 are fighting in both government armies and government rebellians. Some children are kidnapped or forced to fight, others join up hoping to find food and shelter, help their families, or improve their lives. The SOS takes in these children and gives them a home, and a better life. || /archives/ children%20dirty%20water.jpg || In this picture two children are getting drinking water from a polluted stream, that has lots of diseases flowing in it.Many people do not have access to clean drinking water. Some people wash there clothing in the same water they drink. || uk/.../ Sudan_4.jpg || Here is a picture of a orphan who is being treated by the SOS Children's Village. As you can see by the picture, the boy is wearing clean cloths that were probably donated to the SOS Children's charity by a nice hearted person. Look at the little kids joy in his eyes. He is happy to have a place in the world,with a roof over his head and in the hands of a nice lady. || 2008/WORLD/africa/12/27/zimbabwe. malnutrition/art_children_sleeping_cnn.jpg || In this picture two homeless boys are living on a dirt road. They only have one layer between them and the ground and nothing to keep them warm on cold nights. SOS Children helpes provide homes for children like them. In the villages they can be educated, fed, and can have some fun with other kids like them. || 3275/2932838412_70165... || Here is an orphan boy from Sudan whose parents have probably died from a diseases or can not care for him. He has been forced to work and start living like a grown up man. Kids like him do not get to enjoy the regular life of a kid. || org.uk/.../ Sudan_2.jpg || ALL of these pictures show what the SOS Children's Organization does, and who it helps. These children are now educated and ready to make a difference with the future and some day could be the reason for new inventions or technology because of the SOS Children's village, these kids may grow up and live successful lives, but without SOS Children this would have never been possible. ||
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 * 1 || [[image:JamesTySudan.jpg width="497" height="381"]] || COMPUTER CAMERA || This Voice Thread is By Ty Nebwerry And James Topping and behind us is a small SOS Children's Village. ||
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 * 3 || [[image:Sudan_19884.gif width="364" height="451"]] || http://www.africa.upenn.edu/
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 * 5 || [[image:file:///Users/student/Desktop/SudanSmall.jpg]][[image:Starving_child_carried.jpg width="253" height="230"]] || http://www.sudan.net/graphic/news/famine/Starving_child_carried.jpg || This is a picture of a person suffering from starvation. Many kids in Africa do not have enough food to eat to live healthy lives. SOS Children has a sponsoring program that allows family's to sponsor children in Africa. When you sponsor a child, you pay for food,water,and shelter for the child. ||
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