The organization has been implementing FSP for 3 decades, whose main objective is to prevent family breakdown and child abandonment. For this purpose, the organization works to strengthen disadvantaged families by providing short-term emergency assistance and long-term empowering package. Therefore, FSP enables families at risk of child abandonment to ensure their children’s rights to have a family and stable environment by enabling them to achieve social reintegration and self-reliance.
This is attained by providing:
- Immediate financial and material support (monetary relief, food, clothes, and shelters) for families in need;
- Mental and health support to children and young people and their families;
- Supporting caregivers in acquiring specific skills that will help them enhance their current situations and provide quality care for their children and support their development.

Additionally, psychosocial support will be provided to affected families through case management of each family with follow-up by the ER team of social workers and psychologist. The program will further link families to a network of NGOs and facilitate with entities to receive additional for them where needed.

The criteria for beneficiaries to receive assistance are as follows:
- Children who have lost parental care directly or indirectly due to the explosion, and are in need of a home and a caregiver
- Children who have lost one or both parents due to the explosion, and their primary caregiver is in need of assistance for their care
- Female- headed families who have been affected by the explosion and who are in need of assistance to meet their children’s basic needs
- Low income families who have been affected by the explosion and who are in need of assistance to meet their children’s basic needs.
This program has extended over the period of 12 months and is benefiting around 400 children in more than 130 families.

YouthCan! combines mentoring, first work experience, and soft and technical skills trainings within one comprehensive approach. The programme is locally-led, tailored to the local labour market and to the needs of each young person.

Employees from corporate partners share their time, skills, expertise and own career stories, both online and offline. These volunteers plan workshops, facilitate exposure to professional environments and act as professional mentors. Employees and young people can connect face to face or through the digital platform YouthLinks, which enables collaborative learning through online mentoring.

Through YouthCan!, SOS Children’s Villages and partners jointly create uplifting and inspiring opportunities for young people that strengthen their employability and enable them to gain relevant practical experiences, skills and knowledge, unlock their potential to build careers or become entrepreneurs, creating a brighter future for themselves and their communities.