About SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is an independent member association affiliated to the SOS Federation. As a leader in childcare, SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda leverages existing community resources to strengthen quality child care and protection through a holistic continuum of care tailored to orphans, vulnerable children and their families. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda actively advocates for the promotion of childcare and child protection.
Since 2004, The First Lady of Rwanda, Her Excellency Mrs. Jeannette Kagame is the Patron of SOS Children’s Village Rwanda.

Our Programs

Alternative Child Care

Following the National Integrated Child Right Policy (2010) and the National Child Care Reform (2012), SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda remains (...)

Empowering Youth

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda empowers youth to utilize their full potential and tap into opportunities for employment, productivity and (...)

Strengthening Families

Since 2005, SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda initiated the Family Strengthening Programme. The community empowerment programme aims to support (...)

Remedial learning

It has been shown that the causes of vulnerability of children include poverty, divorce, intra-familial conflict, domestic abuse, (...)

Mental Health and SRHR

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is implementing Mental Health and Psychosocial support services aiming at building Mental Health competencies to (...)

Green Regeneration

Climate change is increasingly becoming a global problem posing a fundamental threat to vulnerable families which are faced to resource (...)

Dental Health

Oral health is essential to general health and well-being and greatly influences quality of life. It is defined as a state of being free from (...)

Emergency Response Progra

In light of the COVID19 pandemic lockdown in Rwanda in March 2020 which only excluded emergency services and individuals providing essential (...)

SOS Technical school

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PROJECTS

Promotion of rights (...)

Since Rwanda ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, good progress has been made in protecting the (...)

Healthy teeth for life

The overall aim of the healthy teeth for life interventions is to further sustain and strengthen what has already been achieved throughout the (...)

Community based reintegra

The main goal of Seruka project is to reduce the prevalence of children in street situation in Rwanda over a period of 5 years through (...)

Uburumbuke Iwacu

Uburumbuke Iwacu Project (Prosperity in our Families and Communities) is a 4-year project to be implemented in Nyamiyaga Sector of Gicumbi (...)

Quality Care

The Rwandan government has created an ambitious set of rules to ensure that children’s rights are respected. However, implementation is proving (...)

TVET Project

A general consensus has developed that Rwanda, as other developing countries, faces challenges including the liberalization of the market, rapid (...)

Partner Rwanda

The Government of Rwanda has made an ambitious target of creating 214,000 off-farm jobs every year. This can only be achieved through skills (...)

Green Project

The farmers in Gashora Sector, Bugesera district live from subsistence farming in a semi-arid agro-ecological zone which affects there (...)

Reintegration

SOS CV Rwanda is a child centered organization operating in Rwanda since 1979. Its interventions focus on prevention of family separation (...)

YouthCan! Labour market

Rwanda has a vision to transform the nation to a middle-income country by the year 2050, through NST1 which replaced EDPRS 2. Within priority (...)

Kura Umenye

Rwanda has taken significant stps to improve the legal and institutional framework for the protection of the rights of children. Various social (...)
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Children’s Villages

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda operates 4 villages

2937
Children and Young people

Children and young people supported in SOS family like care and youth care.

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Family Strengthening Programme

5138 families and 22108 children and young people supported through family Strengthening Programmes.

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News stories about children’s welfare and rights, social issues and questions that impact children and families

Empowering youth: Key takeaways from the inaugural Joint YouthCan! International Exchange Conference

Empowering youth: Key takeaways from the inaugural Joint YouthCan! International Exchange Conference

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Shoemaking a way of success

In the morning, people bring their old shoes to Ivan Nshimiyimana’s workshop hoping to have them restored to their original ...

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