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Non-profit organization for projects in Misiones, Argentina

With your donation, you support the SOS Children's Village in Oberá and help Swiss families and Guaraní Indians in the province of Misiones, Argentina for more quality of life, health and education.

The children in the SOS Children's Village in Oberá, Misiones, Argentina are either orphans or come under a court judgment to the SOS Children's Village. Here they live in family-like groups.

The SOS Children's Village in Oberá situated on the outskirts of the same city, 1,200 km north of Buenos Aires on the Paraguayan border, in a very hilly area with a subtropical climate. In addition to the 11 family houses, which may provide a new home for a total of up to 108 children, the SOS Children's Village also has a house for the village director, a house for the SOS aunts we continue to expand. The future SOS mothers and the family helpers who are in daily use, we want to promote.


A sports hall, an administration building with offices, A small farm for agriculture and animal husbandry should also be expanded. Everything is possible only with their donation.


Also the infrastructure of the SOS Children's Village Oberá counts an SOS Kindergarten, which was commissioned in 1992 to accommodate and care for up to 180 children from the SOS Children's Village and the neighborhood. The SOS Kindergarten includes three classrooms for kindergarten and pre-school education.


For the youngsters from the SOS Children's Village, an SOS Youth Facility was created in the provincial capital Posadas, in which up to nine youths are housed during their higher education or vocational training and be prepared to slow a life of independence.

Many Swiss families have once emigrated to Misiones, an Argentinean province bordering Brazil and Paraguay.


They are told "misioneros". In Argentina the inhabitants of the northern province of Misiones are called. In this place are still the foothills of Jesuit efforts to feel, which for the Indios a Christian and solidarity society wanted to build.

Prior to the deforestation of the rainforest in South America, the Guaraní (Indigenous peoples) lived by hunting and gathering in the woods.






Today they live by begging, make crafts ago - no market - and feed on one side of manioc and corn pounded. The one-sided diet, most suffer from deficiency diseases. As they wandered in front of the clearcuts in the woods and therefore knew no hygiene problems, they eke out their existence today in a confined space, on barren, for the white rich people a useless country and are very susceptible to infectious diseases (eg tuberculosis). The Guaraní are now threatened with extinction.