Child Sponsorship background from Arica, Chile

Children at Arica, ChileSOS Children's Village Arica

SOS Children's Village Arica was built on an area of about 9,000 m², and consists of twelve family houses which provide a new, loving home for up to 108 children. SOS Children's Village Arica includes: a village director's house, a community centre for events and celebrations, an administrative unit, a small medical clinic, a sports ground, a chapel, a swimming pool, a holiday camp, and an SOS aunts' house (SOS Children’s Village mothers in training, who assist current SOS mothers in their everyday work, and stand in for them if they are ill or on holiday).

Other SOS Projects in Arica

The SOS Children's Village children are taught in local public nursery school and schools. Up to ten adolescents from the SOS Children's Village can be housed at the SOS Youth Home in the city for the period of their secondary education or vocational training, where a youth educator supervises them as they gradually get used to leading an independent life.

Background to Arica

Arica is a port city in northern Chile, located 18 km south of the border with Peru.  It has a population of about 200,000 and is known as the "city of the eternal spring". It was part of Peru until 1880, when, during the War of the Pacific, it was taken by Chilean forces.  It was incorporated into Chile officially in 1929.