Design Date: December 1987.
Construction Period: April 1988 to July 1994.

“Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are our eyes looking in” - Stendhal.

SOS is an organization providing care for orphan and destitute children. The central figure is the ‘mother’ who brings up ten such children in her own home and who are accepted by her family. Hence, these children have cousins, uncles, aunts and grandparents.

Such a home is called a ‘Family House’ and is the essential building unit of an SOS Village. The first SOS Children’s Village was established in Imst, Austria in 1949, soon after the war, by Dr. Hermann Gmeiner who was the founding father of the SOS idea of ‘mother and child’.

Twelve such Family Houses form the nucleus of the SOS Children’s Village in Galle, the main coastal town of southern Sri Lanka, and were occupied in January 1991. SOS strongly affirms that good architecture, which should provide a formal and secure framework, does assist in their programs providing care for children.

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