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SOS Children's Villages International Japan
Organization:Facility Type: Shelter
Status: Open
Address:
Fukuoka, JP 00000
| Region: | Fukuoka Prefecture |
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Website: http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/pages/default.aspx
Mission: SOS Children's Villages is an international non-governmental social development organisation that has been active in the field of children's rights and committed to children's needs and concerns since 1949. In 132 countries and territories our activities focus on children without parental care and children of families in difficult circumstances.
SOS Children's Villages focuses on family-based, long-term care of children who can no longer grow up with their biological families. At our SOS Children's Villages and SOS Youth Facilities they experience reliable relationships and love once again, meaning that they can recover from what they have experienced, which has often been traumatic. They grow up in a stable family environment, and are supported individually until they become independent young adults.
We are extending our work with families through family strengthening programmes by working with and for disadvantaged families to prevent crises that can in the worst case scenario lead to children being placed in out-of-home care. SOS Children's Villages offers various forms of support to strengthen and stabilise families as much as possible so that they can once again manage their lives independently and care for their children. Our family strengthening programmes are an important way of building on the families' and communities' resources, their ability to self-organise themselves and their responsibility for the well-being of the children.
Equal rights to education and training for children are another important area of our work. Pre-school care for children, schooling and vocational training are the key to the future. To ensure that children enjoy these basic rights, SOS Children's Villages has kindergartens, day-care centres, schools and vocational training centres. Most of them are located outside Europe.
SOS Children's Villages is concerned about all children, particularly those who have no parental care and those whose families have to live in difficult conditions. The basis and aim of our work is to respect, promote and stand up for children's rights. We want to use our socio-political work to make decision makers and the public aware of the problems that children face and to call for measures that will promote the well-being of children across the world. In parallel to our lobbying activities, we encourage children to actively take part in the decision-making processes that affect their lives and, if possible, to actually represent themselves.
Areas Served: Fukuoka, Japan
This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary
Notes:
FROM THE SITE:
Japanese Children's Village ready to help
23/03/2011 - The Children's Village Fukuoka is prepared to care for children from the disaster areas temporarily. In case children cannot return to their families, they can also be cared for in the long-term. SOS Children's Villages in neighbouring countries have also offered their support.
Beside the offer to admit children to the Children’s Village and care for them as long as their family situation has been clarified, Children’s Village Fukuoka will assist activities to receive children from the disaster areas in family-based care settings, which are prepared by the National Association of Foster Parents (in terms of financial resources, psychological care etc.). Children’s Village Fukuoka will further help to promote activities to increase the number of families which provide children with temporary care and foster families. In Fukuoka city, the number of children in foster care has increased in the recent years, but in Japan children in foster care or other family-based settings comprise only about ten percent of the children in alternative care; the majority still has to live in large residential institutions.
SOS Children’s Villages in China, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam would be able to accommodate families from Japan for approximately three months; single mothers with their children and big families would be the main target group. Children’s Village Fukuoka will consult on this with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Staff of the Ministry have been sent to the Children’s Centres in the disaster areas, and according to Mrs Junko Otani, executive director of Children's Village Fukuoka, they are starting to systematically assess the situation of affected children there.
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FROM RELIEF WEB:
Japan: Children’s Village Fukuoka answers call for help
Source: SOS Children's Villages International
18/03/2011 – The children's village in Fukuoka has agreed to take in as many unaccompanied children as it can. SOS Children's Villages will send additional funds if necessary.
Estimates suggest some 100,000 may have been displaced by the disaster - Photo: REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
In the aftermath of the series of disasters that hit the north-eastern shores of Japan, the children's village Fukuoka has agreed to take in as many unaccompanied children as its capacities allow. If necessary, SOS Children's Villages will help the children's village Fukuoka to adequately care for the children until either their families or a better solution have been found.
Request to help from state entity
The association "Children's Village Fukuoka", which works closely with SOS Children's Villages, was approached by the Japanese Child Guidance Centres, a state body that ensures that children who have lost parental care receive the best alternative care solution available.
Many children feared separated from family
Although there is currently no way of establishing how many children have lost their families to the disaster, experts fear that the number may be very high due to the fact that most children were in school or kindergarten at the time of the earthquake and the tsunami that followed.
Children need trauma therapy
The most urgently needed basic supplies are water, blankets, food and medical care. As the CEO of Children's Village Fukuoka Junko Otani points out, however, one of the most pressing needs is to ensure that children who have been severely traumatised and distressed by what they have witnessed receive professional psychological care. Children who have been through such a traumatic experience need to express and process what they have seen as soon as possible to prevent long-term mental scarring.
Emergency relief efforts and assessments of the extent of damages have been extremely difficult due to the sheer size of the affected areas. First estimates put the number of people who have lost their homes at over half a million; 100,000 of them are children.
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Created At: Thu Mar 24 17:49:54 +0000 2011
Updated At: Thu Mar 24 17:49:54 +0000 2011
Updated By: LTel
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