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About SOS Children UK

SOS Children UK (UK Charity No. 1069204) is the UK member of SOS Children's Villages International, one of the largest children's organizations in the world, operating in 123 countries including the USA and Canada. Best known as the world's largest orphan charity, with around 70,000 children living in family based care in SOS Children's Villages, and a large African Aids Orphan program, SOS is also a very large educational charity running 192 schools with 91,000 pupils in the developing world. The Schools Wikipedia (a special selection of articles from the English Wikipedia, completed through a partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation) was started by SOS Children UK and was substantially checked by volunteers. For more information on the worldwide organsition see www.soschildren.org