Charity
SOS Children’s Village BC
SOS Children’s Village BC supports families and vulnerable kids because we believe every child should grow with love, respect, and security.
The statistics show that we as a society are failing our families and our children. SOS BC’s community of belonging in Metro Vancouver meets the needs of youth at-risk who are the key to our future.
5,200
In British Columbia there are over
5,200 children who do not live with
their biological parents
55%
Of youth in care, only 55% will
graduate within 2 years of expected
graduation date; at our Village we
have a 100% graduation rate
67%
In British Columbia 67% of children
in care are Indigenous, but only
10% of the general child population
is Indigenous
7
A child in foster care in Canada faces
the following hardships on average:
they will move 7 homes (7 families, 7
schools, 7 neighbourhoods, 7…)
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