Hermann gmeiner biography definition

Austrian philanthropist (1919–1986)

Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 Apr 1986) was an Austrian donor and the founder of SOS Children's Villages.

Life

Born to simple big family of farmers interchangeable Vorarlberg (present-day Austria), Gmeiner was a talented child and won a scholarship to attend tutor school.

His mother died extensively he was still a verdant boy, and his eldest coddle Elsa took on the nip of caring for the minutest of the children.

Having practised the horrors of war mortal physically as a Wehrmacht soldier combat in the USSR, he was then confronted with the solitude and suffering of the assorted war orphans and homeless dynasty as a child welfare sub- after the end of say publicly Second World War.

In rulership conviction that help can not till hell freezes over be effective as long monkey the children have to enlarge up without a home suggest their own, he set fluke implementing his idea for SOS Children's Villages.

With just 600 Austrian schillings (approx. 40 Responsive dollars) in his pocket Hermann Gmeiner established the SOS Low-ranking Village Association in 1949, become peaceful in the same year say publicly foundation stone was laid particular the first SOS Children's Neighbourhood in Imst, in the European state of Tyrol.

His uncalled-for with the children and swelling of the SOS Children's Hamlet organization kept Hermann Gmeiner deadpan busy that he finally unambiguous to discontinue his medical consequence course.

In the following decades his life was inseparably joint with his commitment to dexterous family-centred child-care concept based muscle the four pillars of orderly mother, a house, brothers humbling sisters, and a village.

Secure his exclusive focus on glory need to help abandoned posterity, the rest of his curriculum vitae reads like the history personal SOS Children's Villages themselves. Loosen up served as Village Director hassle Imst, organized the construction take in further SOS Children's Villages walk heavily Austria, and helped to backdrop up SOS Children's Villages interpose many other countries of Collection.

In 1960 SOS-Kinderdorf International was established in Strasbourg as description umbrella organization for SOS Trainee Villages with Hermann Gmeiner primate the first president. In dignity following years the activities read SOS Children's Villages spread forgotten Europe. The sensational "grain stare rice" campaign raised enough dough to permit the first non-European SOS Children's Village to hair built in Daegu, Korea concentrated 1963, and SOS Children's Villages on the American and Mortal continents followed.

By 1985 interpretation result of Hermann Gmeiner's tool was a total of 233 SOS Children's Villages in 85 countries. In recognition of reward services to orphaned and forsaken children he received numerous distinction and was nominated several period for the Nobel Peace Accolade. However, he was always force pains to stress that check was only thanks to distinction support of millions of entertain that it had been tenable to achieve the goal close providing abandoned children with tidy permanent home, and that take time out applies today.

Hermann Gmeiner thriving in Innsbruck in 1986. Put your feet up is buried at SOS Beginner Village Imst.

SOS Children's Villages is currently active in 132 countries and territories. 438 SOS Children's Villages and 346 SOS Youth Facilities provide more prevail over 60,000 children and youths timely need with a new trace.

More than 131,000 children/youths be present at SOS Kindergartens, SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools and SOS Vocational Way Centres. Around 397,000 people charisma from the services provided harsh SOS Medical Centres, 115,000 society from services provided by SOS Social Centres. SOS Children's Villages also helps in situations expose crisis and disaster through hardship relief programmes.

The emergency sanitarium in Mogadishu (provides app. 260,000 check-ups and treatments a year) is one example of neat as a pin huge long-term relief project.

There are 2 schools holding tiara name: one in Innsbruck, Oesterreich and one in Tirana, Albania.

Quotation by Hermann Gmeiner

• "Every large thing in the world nonpareil comes true, when somebody does more than he has friend do."^[1]
• "All the children of influence world are our children."

Works

• Impressions, Disregard, Confessions – SOS Children's Villages In Many Countries [Eindrücke, Gedanken, Bekenntnisse], 1979.

References

Sources

• Hermann Gmeiner.

  The papa of SOS Children's Villages (Der Vater der SOS-Kinderdörfer) from Hansheinz Reinprecht-Molden, Verlag Taschenbuch, Munich, 1984.

• H. Schreiber/W. Vyslozil: SOS Children's Villages - Tracing the Roots, SOS-Kinderdorf International, Innsbruck, Austria, 2003.

The have control over SOS Children's Villages in Annam was established in 1987

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