The non-profit organization provides children lacking parental care with a safe home and many children lost their families.
For children growing up alone across the world they need great mothers, SOS mothers fill that role, raising children in safe and nurturing homes. Organization creates bonds that last a lifetime and give children the trust and confidence to make them the strongest selves and self-assurance in their life.
SOS Children’s Villages helps children to find lost relatives so they can grow up with their families in the case where a child has no relatives.
Regarding this The Ethiopian Herald had a stay with mothers who give parental care in SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia and regarding how to raise and develop socialization of children to reach them at a good level of status.
Her name is Enat Woineshet and she left her village Harar to watch the younger children in the village in Addis Ababa village center. Enat joined the organization after months of training ten years back and she lives in a village center.
She is raising eight children at this moment and raised about 19 children during her stay in SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia and some of her children have graduated and married to her. “We always live in the village and give care to children and even sometimes it is allowed to help our relatives or kids. I don’t detach from my children even when I retire.”
“I give them real love and commit my promise as a biological mother; three of my children have married and are survived by three kids and now they help me as biological mother. Being motherhood needs commitment, born from the heart, needs decision, and true love,” she added.
Aregash Dagnu, another woman, stated that she served twenty years in SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia Addis village in parental care, raising children after consecutive four months training in Hawassa. Among the 30 children she brought up; most of them are getting married and sometimes visit her.
Now she raises eight children in the previously mentioned village center. “I provide care for my children to have a successful life. It takes real commitment to raise a child and devotion.”
BY MISGANAW ASNAKE
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2023
