— OUR FUNDRAISING EFFORT
SOS Children’s Village California
We join AAC West in their legacy project establishing the Community Center for an SOS Children’s Village in California
About SOS Children’s Village
Your generous giving will allow the AACW to become a significant co-founder of the SOS Palmdale Campus. AACW plans to create the Community Center and dedicate it to the longstanding friendship between Austria and the United States including the generosity of all of you. You will be recognized in your order of giving at the Center. This Community Center will not only serve the children living at the village, but will provide services to children outside of the Palmdale Campus. A successful fund drive will allow potential representation on the SOS Palmdale Board of Directors by someone appointed by AACW to have access to village management for now and into the future.
SOS Kinderdorf of Children’s Villages is one of the great treasures Austria has given to the world. This project so dear to us is not only Austrian and Austrian-American
but a community project for everyone with a heart for children in need.
After World War Ⅱ, the Austrian Hermann Gmeiner saw the plight of so many orphaned children. So he started the first SOS children village in Tyrol in 1949.
He called on widowed women to run these homes.
Today SOS Children’s Villages is the largest not-for-profit childcare provider in the world,
serving children and families in 576 villages, in 137 countries across the globe.
They are looking after the abandoned, neglected, and abused children.
Nearly 100 times a day, a child in California is placed into foster care
because their home wasn’t safe enough for them to stay in. However,
the system they enter for temporary protection often leads to permanent trauma.
Due to no fault of their own, children who have already survived challenging circumstances,
sometimes including abuse and neglect, are forced into an unstable,
under-resourced, and struggling foster care system.
Join us in our efforts!
Do you want to support AAC East and AAC West in bringing this beautiful project to life?