Word: sos
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...even more interesting enterprise is 35 miles southwest of Chicago. The SOS Children's Village in rural Lockport contradicts standard protocol in any number of ways. For one, SOS accepts, or rather seeks, sibling groups, which are difficult to place in foster care. It looks for children 10 and younger -- an age at which most states believe children should still be trying to fit into foster homes. And it does so with the goal of long-term residency that replicates -- and replaces -- family life. "We are a source of frustration for the Department of Children and Family Services," says Village...
...reasons Mathis may sound so sure of his unorthodox arrangement is that the SOS Village, and a sister operation in Florida, are part of a mammoth chain based in Innsbruck, Austria. Founded in 1949 for war orphans, SOS- Kinderdorf International, now established in 124 countries, cares for a total of 180,000 children. In each "village," the concept is the same: long- term residency and house mothers who commit to 20 years with the project...
...company will work through Save Our Strength (SOS), a Washington based non-profit hunger relief organization, which matches surplus food supplies with hungry people...
...program, which is called "Million Meals," will distribute grants through SOS to food banks and homeless shelters...
...using your card, you can fight hunger," said Christine Parker, a communications intern at SOS. Parker said SOS, in joining with American Express, hopes to involve a broader range of supporters, from corporations to college students...