The SOS Family Program is implemented within the SOS Children's Village for children who have lost parental care and have no guardian or distant parent to care for them. With the concept of SOS Children's Village, our organization opened in 1949 the way to long-term family-based care for orphaned and abandoned children. This concept is based on four principles: SOS mother, siblings, home and village.

Admission of a child to the SOS Families program is exempt from any financial contribution. The child who has lost parental care and has no one in the community to take care of him/her will find alternative care: a new mother, new brothers and sisters, a new home and a new community. To be admitted to the SOS Families Program you must:

• Be between 0 and 8 years old, except for siblings (exceptions are made for older children from the same siblings),

• Being a complete orphan (deceased father or mother) or Semi-orphan (one parent dead and the other unable to care for the child)

• Being a social case (children deprived of parental care for various reasons)

• Being an abandoned child (child without family reference)

• Being a child victim of sociocultural exclusions (habits, customs, beliefs).