Association

Who are we?

The association SOS AIDE ORPHELIN is a charitable association that aims to help orphans and widows who need material and moral help, It takes care of orphans residing in ALGERIA whose father has died and who live with their mother who is completely destitute and destitute. The objective of the association is to find sponsors around the world to help these orphans financially, morally, to contribute to improving their daily lives and providing for their basic needs, thus ensuring a better and stable future.

Our History

The beginning of the adventure

The SOS AIDE ORPHELIN association was created in January 2016.

Initially, this project was to make ourselves useful. Since 2012, we have already sponsored orphans with the FOREM association (Kafil el Yatim) whose seriousness we greatly appreciated, so we decided to work with FOREM.

FOREM manages orphan files and our mission is to find sponsors around the world to support these orphans financially and thus contribute to improving their daily lives.

Hope without attendance

This support consists in providing the orphan with the opportunity to feed, heal, dress and, above all, have a good education, a necessary and important step to build a better future. This act of sponsorship is not only financial aid but it is also moral support and an emotional bond because the orphan knows that somewhere in the world someone helps him, supports him, thinks of him. The godfather becomes an important reference that sends a message of hope and a lifeline. Sponsing an orphan is a strong and unique personal experience that will allow an innocent and vulnerable child to build his future in complete freedom.

Commitment

Over the past 8 years, this project has brought together 400 sponsors.

Today, we sponsor 600 orphans.

To help the other 2,000 orphans waiting, we are looking for sponsors who want to join us in this adventure.

Sponsoring an orphan costs €0.67 per day, €20 per month or €240 per year, which you can pay in one go.

Our Values

01. Education

Provide education and medical care to orphaned children. Support the promotion of education, particularly education through the schooling of disadvantaged children.

02. Respect and impartiality

Respect for the dignity and worth of the beneficiary. And impartiality in action by helping only the most deprived orphaned children, in an equitable way

03. Humanity

Humanity, which implies that a central place be given to the safeguarding of human life and the alleviation of suffering. Helping those who are suffering.

04. Solidarity

SOS Aide Orphelins is based on the responsibility to help the most deprived and to support them to improve their daily lives.

05. Equality

Sos Aide Orphelins wants to guarantee respect for the rights of its orphans and strives to treat them all in the same way and with dignity.

06. Commitment

SOS Aide Orphelins puts its expertise, skills and energy at the service of its orphans in a concrete and sustainable way.

Our Partner

FOREM is a foundation that deals with several areas: Humanitarian Aid, Psychology and Mental Health, Drug Addiction, Environment and ORPHANS SPONSORSHIP.

FOREM is located in ALGIERS. Regarding orphans, FOREM works with a CANADIAN association, sponsors from ALGERIA as well as our association SOS AIDE ORPHELINS in France.

FOREM manages 1000 orphans who live with their mother (in ISLAM a child is considered an orphan if he has lost his father and a fortiori if he has lost both).

The role of FOREM

Firstly, FOREM works as follows: the mother will submit her file which is composed of a photo of the orphan, the orphan’s birth certificate, the father’s death certificate, the mother’s identity card, proof of income and finally a crossed check. (Payment is only made by transfer).

Secondly, the file is analyzed, validated, which is almost always the case. This file is then archived at FOREM.

At SOS Aide Orphelins

Now, let’s take the example of a sponsor who comes to SOS AIDE ORPHELINS. The association requests a file from FOREM by email, then transfers this file to the sponsor. The file consists of the orphan’s photo, his birth certificate, the father’s death certificate and the mother’s identity card.

In return, the sponsor pays SOS AIDE ORPHELIN the sum of €240 in one go, or €20 per month. In addition, the donor can sponsor one or more orphans.

The sponsor does not have a commitment contract, he can stop sponsoring after one year, the minimum period of sponsorship. It is FOREM who decides the amount to give to each orphan, the sum is 37,800 dinars which corresponds to the official exchange at €240.
SOS AIDE ORPHELIN makes a half-yearly payment to FOREM which makes the payment to the orphans

Then, a few days before the transfer, the mother with her child(ren) go to FOREM to take a photo and sign to avoid cheating.

In conclusion, FOREM asks each orphan to write a thank you letter with blessings for their sponsor. This letter accompanied by a large photo is sent to the sponsor at the beginning of the year. In addition, the godfather and godmother can communicate all year long either by phone or by mail. When they travel to the country, they can visit the orphans and possibly bring them gifts.