Together 360 SOS Children's Villages are operating in 120 countries. In the USA there is a village in a rural area of Florida and a rural area of Illinois. Ground for an SOS Children's Village on the near North or South side of Milwaukee could be broken in 1997.
War destroys families.
The idea behind SOS Children's Villages is to give children, orphans, a family structure in a home, in a village. The Milwaukee Village will be the organization's first village in an urban setting. None of the villages built since 1949 have ever failed. The planned Milwaukee village will re-unite brothers and sisters in the county's foster care system. Six children will be raised in the home by one or two adults hired for the purpose.