New Accommodation for Girls
A new home for girls in crisis is being built in Graz
On July 4, 2025, a site inspection was held for the Girls' Housing NEW project by SOS Children's Villages in Gradnerstraße. Around 30 donors and representatives from construction companies and SOS Children's Villages took part.
High demand for supervised crisis accommodation
The demand for therapeutically supervised accommodation for girls with mental health issues is rising sharply. The new building creates urgently needed space and a sense of security. The girls should not only find a roof over their heads there, but also a place where healing is possible.
“A place where they can be carefree children” - SOS Children's Village Director Birgitta Thurner She emphasized how important a stable environment is for young people in exceptional situations.
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Doctors without borders
When large-scale epidemics occur, when areas in crisis are too dangerous for many others, then the medical teams from MSF are there to ensure that the affected population can count on continual care being provided for their most basic health-care needs.
They organize basic medical care, treat the injured, carry out vaccination campaigns, train local medical staff and build up medical infrastructure. In long-term aid projects they dedicate themselves to the fight against diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, sleeping sickness, and HIV/AIDS. The on-location work of our expats is often very exhausting, but also fascinating, demanding appropriate professional knowledge, and a large amount of motivation and commitment.
Special Olympics
Special Olympics provides worldwide in 180 countries for more than 2.5 million children ages 8 and up, adolescents and adults with mental disabilities in all-year training and competition opportunities in 26 different Olympic sports. These sports and their rules and regulations are designed to take as many people with mental disabilities because of their disability and can measure accordingly with almost equally strong people.
Special Olympics has a firm faith to feel that people with mental disabilities learn with appropriate encouragement from participation in individual and team sports and joy can derive personal benefit. Further Special Olympics believes that a regular exercise contributes significantly to the development of athletes. Special Olympics believes that people can draw with special needs through training and athletic competition a physical, mental and social benefits.