A Report on Visit to SOS Children’s Village

Date: 11 August,2017

Name of the organisation: SOS Children’s Village, Jaipur, Jhalana, Near Peetal Factory, Shashtri Nagar, Jaipur

The students of M.Sc Human Development, III semester and B.Sc Home Science, III semester visited the SOS children’s Village, Jaipur, located in Shashtri Nagar, Opposite petal factory, as a part of their syllabi. A total of 07 students escorted with Archana Kumari, Assistant Professor in the Department of Home Science to explore the information regarding mission, vision, organization structure; services provided and other aspects of the organization.

Just after arriving there a video related to the introduction of SOS village, its vision, mission, guiding principles etc. was shown to the students and then a brief introduction was given by the resource person, Ms. Anjali Bhatt, who is working as a secretary in the organization. As per the information given by her, SOS Children's Village was established in 1976. After this presentation students were taken to early childhood centre located in the SOS premises. There the students participated in different activities like story-telling, rhymes session etc. Each students of B.Sc as well as M.Sc collected detailed information about a single child to prepare a case study. All children participated enthusiastically and enjoyed the activity.

After participation, students were shown the home located in the SOS village campus. The house was fully furnished and provided with all the basic facilities. Every house was taken care by a woman whom the children call as ‘Amma’. She takes care of children just like a mother. The SOS Village has all the facilities such as 14 family homes (140 Children), a Kindergarten, a well equipped computer laboratory, basketball and volleyball courts, an auditorium, a library and a medical dispensary. Finally the students visited the campus and the administrative office and talked to the staff.