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In its efforts to meet the needs of the children and youth entrusted to its care, SOS Children’s Villages had to introduce new services and programmes to enable their smooth development.
EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT 
Children in the ICT room in Beau Bassin ( project implented in 2007) Remedial Education
Most of our kids have experienced severe lack in their education at early ages. Remedial education is given to these kids by devoted teachers in the children’s villages. Some of them attend outside specialised schools.  Children in the remedial class
FSP Beneficiaries of Bambous in the remedial class  Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Under the VET programme of SOS Children’s Villages Mauritius, needy adolescents are initiated to basic vocational specificity of the VET is its focus on the development of self-esteem. In fact, caregivers work in parallel with trainers to support the development of the trainees. Youths training in electricity, pastry and woodwork in the VET
Hermann Gmeiner Training Centre
The HGTC plays the important role of sharing knowledge, skills and good practices. Currently, the experienced teachers of the SOS Kindergarten offers training for trainee teacher in the community. It is also a facility for staff training.courses like electricity, wood work, pastry. Qualified trainers deliver modules at the individual pace of the participants. The
PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES SOS Children's Villages Mauritius cares for the most disadvantaged kids who require long term residential care. The children who are referred by the government, have suffered various forms of abuses ( violence, phychological and emotional trauma). Trauma due to abandonment and other forms of deprivation or abuses during early childhood have profound bruises on most of the kids under our care. Consequently, we observe that major behaviour and personality disorders affecting the stability and development of the kids emerge at later stages of their developent, mainly during adolescence and early adulthood. Some of the consequences of unhealed trauma that we have observed are acute lack of self-esteem and agressivity. It is therefore, necessary to provide psychological counselling and therapeutic services to most of the children under our care and even a few in our Family Strenghthening Programme for prevention of child abandonment. Thus, the services of psychologists on a sessional basis is critical for the success of SOS CV programmes in Mauritius. This service is also extended to the SOS Mothers and aunties. OUTREACH SERVICES 
Leadership course held by the Nouvel IDP in La Gaulette, under the SOS Children's Village FSP Family Strengthening Programme (FSP)
The FSP addresses the root causes of child abandonment in Mauritius by empowering families to properly care after their children. The outreach social workers work with the children, the family and the community. The programme services include: education, family counselling, food assistance, advocacy, sensitisation and referrals to specialised institutions. The FSP works in partnership other agencies. |
