Last month, the football youth academy GlobalPro Soccer-Soccer organised a football match to raise funds for the emergency aid programme set up by SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde in Nepal following the two earthquakes that devastated the country.

Around 80 young people, aged between 4-17 years, participated in this solidarity tournament, together with their relatives and friends who also supported the event, especially in preparing food dishes. In the end, coaches, players and parents managed to collect the handsome sum of €1,100.

Marta Hughes, mother of a budding football player and member of the Board of SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde, presented a cheque to Sophie Glesener, Director, and Anne Schweizer, Head of Partnerships at SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde. The director congratulated the young players for their efforts and their gesture of solidarity in support of Nepal's most vulnerable children, "I thank from my heart all the GlobalPro Soccer-Soccer team for this wonderful initiative for the earthquake victims in Nepal, nearly three months after the disaster. The mobilisation of SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde remains fundamental to allow families to rebuild and for traumatised children to live their childhood."

SOS Villages d’Enfants Nepal was able to respond immediately after the earthquake. At the height of the emergency, the association provided essential services (shelter, nutrition, health, ...) to some 2,500 beneficiaries, opened 25 day-care spaces for 2,000 children and 39 unaccompanied children were hosted in four of its ten SOS Children's Villages. For now, it has developed a multidimensional rehabilitation programme and in the long term, particularly by strengthening families, strengthening their livelihoods, reconstruction of housing and public schools.