Sylhet Bureau :
International SOS Children’s Village Day was celebrated in Osmaninagar, Sylhet, in honor of the founder of SOS Children’s Villages, Herman Meiner.
On this occasion, various programs including sports, cultural, quizzes, writing competitions, storytelling, football and painting competitions were organized on the premises of SOS Children’s Village Sylhet for a week.
In continuation of this, the closing ceremony of the week-long programme was organized inside the Dayamir SOS Children’s Village Sylhet in Osmani Nagar Upazila of Sylhet on Monday afternoon.
Md. Mazharul Islam Khan, Assistant Director and In-charge of SOS Children’s Village Sylhet presided over the Programme.
Osmaninagar UNO Joynal Abedin attend the programme as a chief guest.
The children spoke on behalf of the programme,Sumaiya Akhter and Emily Khatun on behalf of SOS mothers. After the discussion, prizes were distributed among the winning children who participated in various events.
Later, the guests spent some happy time with the children and their families. SOS Children’s Village Sylhet was decorated with colorful decorations around the program. It was decorated with balloons of different colors, paper crafts and festoons.
Also present at the programme were heads of various educational institutions, bankers, senior officials of various government and private organizations, businessmen, dignitaries, journalists from various print media and numerous well-wishers. Children living inside SOS Children’s Village Sylhet, as well as underprivileged children from neighboring towns, participated in the program. The courtyard of SOS Children’s Village became joyful.
At the end of the programme,UNO Joynal Abedin planted a lightning-resistant palm tree in the courtyard of SOS Children’s Village Sylhet, as well as distributed 100 fruit and forest tree saplings among the participants of the family strengthening program and distributed 828 school bags among the children of the community.
Meanwhile, SOS Children’s Village is a non-governmental, child welfare and social development organization that plays an important role in establishing children deprived of parental love in society by providing family-based services and ensuring their various needs and rights. Children’s Village wants every child to be close to their family and grow up in love, respect and security. To this end, we create alternative families for children who have lost their families for various reasons, help them build a better future and contribute to social development. In addition, we help children who are at risk of losing family care by keeping them in their own families and taking them on the path to a better future through support. Moreover, we have special initiatives for the expansion of general and technical education, the creation of skilled manpower and the socio-economic development of the poor. Professor Hermann Meiner established the first SOS Children’s Village in Imst, Austria in 1949 and gradually it expanded to 138 countries of the world.
Immediately after the Bangladesh Liberation War, the founder of SOS International Children’s Villages, the late Professor Hermann Meiner, came to Bangladesh in 1972. In continuation of this, the activities of this child welfare organization in Bangladesh were started by establishing the country’s first SOS Children’s Village in Shyamoli, Dhaka. Later, SOS Children’s Villages were expanded to Rajshahi, Khulna, Chittagong, Bogra and Sylhet. Activities started in Dayamir Union of Osmaninagar Upazila of Sylhet in 2011. SOS Children’s Villages in Greater Sylhet is committed to providing a permanent and long-term service to the helpless, abused, deprived, disadvantaged and familyless children of this region. This is a unique and exceptional effort for the welfare of children in this region. Financial and humanitarian support from people from all walks of life will further accelerate the activities of SOS Children’s Villages.
