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SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools 

A good education is the key to the future.

The Hermann Gmeiner Schools provide an education for poor and abandoned children all over the world and provide a path with which girls and boys can achieve self-determined lives in dignity.

In many regions outside Europe, the basic right to education cannot come to fulfillment due to poor educational infrastructure. For this reason, schools are often established in the area which a SOS Children’s Village serves, and these schools are attended by both children from SOS Children’s Villages and children from the vicinity.

In Europe, all children and youths from the SOS Children’s Villages attend public schools or benefit from the existing general educational and training opportunities. In non-European countries in which there are SOS Children’s Villages, the school system is oftentimes totally insufficient due to inadequate state support and marginal financial resources. In these cases, the societal situation of a large part of the population makes payment of school fees impossible and education becomes an unattainable luxury commodity.

Girls in the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School in Freetown, Sierra Leon
By establishing Hermann Gmeiner Schools, SOS Children’s Villages in this respect meet not only the educational needs of children and youths in the SOS Children’s Villages, but also improve the educational opportunities especially for children from the surrounding communities and relieve existing schools.