SOS Children's Village BC

SOS Children’s Village BC has been incorporated as a charitable organization since 1986. We work closely with the Ministry of Children and Family Development and other social service agencies.

SOS Children’s Village BC provides a community-based family care service to improve and sustain the quality of life for foster children and foster families. Foster children are frequently at risk of emotional disturbances, delayed social development and poor educational performance. Foster parents who raise these children require ongoing special resources and support.

SOS BC enhances the development and healing of foster children by addressing their physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs. We actively create opportunities, programs and services for foster children to become balanced, responsible, contributing members of society. We offer various programs in order to increase stability and continuity for foster children and their foster parents:

Family Continuance: addresses the needs of the foster children and foster parents who reside in the five houses at the SOS Village site.

Lifeskills Outreach: is committed to offering programs that involve and serve the extended community of foster children and foster parents who do not live at the SOS village site.

Youth In Transition: This program is designed to assist youth exiting from foster care, providing them with mentoring and support in a semi-supervised setting while they adjust to adult responsibilities and transition to further education and independent living.

Community Education and Awareness Program: enlightens potential foster parents, volunteers, supporters, donors, media and the general public about our mission. It includes oral presentations, audiovisual tools, written materials and general costs associated with getting our message out. Please call our office at 604-574-2964 if you would like a presentation.

October 2009 News:

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt visit SOS Children's
Villages in Jordan

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were invited to make a special visit to the SOS Children's Village in Amman, Jordan, by Her Majesty Queen Noor. While it was Brad Pitt's first visit to an SOS Children's Village, Angelina Jolie was glad to return.

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Bob Lenarduzzi, GM of the Vancouver Whitecaps, is SOS BC's spokesman. He espouses the positive connection socccer has with foster children. Watch his video interview.

Our well-known worldwide supporters, including Canada's Governor General Michaëlle Jean, bring the situation of children into the public eye. Meet these supporters.

Internationally, SOS Children’s Villages have been successful for over 50 years helping approximately 300,000 orphaned and neglected children find homes and loving families. There are now over 400 villages in over 130 countries world wide. It is the largest privately funded child welfare program in the world.