In 2008, SOS Children's Villages launched its first family strengthening programme in Battambang. Working with local agencies, we aim to support families at risk of abandoning their children and to encourage them to stay together. The programmes are designed to ensure that children have access to essential services, such as education and health. Families are given training and assisted with income generation schemes. 

For children whose families can no longer take care of them SOS Children's Villages provides a loving home in one of the fifteen SOS families, where they grow up with their brothers and sisters and are cared for by an SOS mother. Many children who join our family-based care suffer from vitamin deficiency and skin diseases. In addition to treating their malnutrition and giving them vaccinations, we provide them with tender loving care so that they can heal and begin to enjoy life again. These children often have not been to school at all, or only intermittently, and so we prepare them to join mainstream education.