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Insight: Charity Initiative - Get the WOW factor

The benefits of involvement in World Orphan Week and the charity behind it are explained by Linda Baston-Pitt, proprietor of The Old Schoolhouse Day Nursery in Stetchworth, Cambridgeshire.

Staff and children at The Old Schoolhouse Day Nursery have been involved with SOS Children, an international orphan charity, for three years and have educational links with a nursery in Africa.

We were inspired by SOS Children's unique approach to the long-term care of orphaned and abandoned children through their Children's Village concept. The villages are made up of family houses where orphans are cared for by a permanent mother, siblings can stay together and a new family is created. Ancillary facilities are provided for the children such as nurseries, schools, medical clinics and training centres. These benefit not only the SOS Village but the local community.

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