SOS was founded in 1949 by an Austrian, Hermann Gmeiner, to provide a family, a home, and a village for kids orphaned or abandoned in WW2. It is now the global charity with the highest recognition factor, although not well known in Canada, since we had few orphaned refugees. SOS remains true to its original objective of harbouring & educating orphans. Most activities now take place in Africa & other parts of the sick (HIV) & war ravaged world to provide some normalcy for helpless children & to keep them from being brutalized as young soldiers, sex objects, or slave labour.
— Alfred Wirth

Alf Wirth and Allison