Officially founded in 1949, Hermann Gmeiner refined the name to SOS Children’s Villages to emphasize the call for attention to children in need worldwide. To Gmeiner – pictured below – and his supporters, SOS meant socially responsible society ( Societas Socialis is a Latin phrase and translates literally to “social service society”). That’s where the “SOS” comes from, an acronym of the club’s name.
You have probably seen the acronym “S.O.S.” before, but do you know what “SOS” stands for in the name SOS Children’s Villages, the world’s largest organization caring for children who have lost both their parents or been abandoned?īefore it was called SOS Children’s Villages, Hermann Gmeiner’s Societas Socialis was a social club organized to raise funds for the care of children without parents in Austria.
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