Former head of SOS Children's Villages, Helmut Kotten, dies in Bangkok Hospital, Thailand

Former head of SOS Children's Villages, Helmut Kotten, dies in Bangkok Hospital, Thailand

 Former head of SOS Children's Villages, Helmut Kotten, dies in Bangkok Hospital, Thailand

HELMUT KUTIN


The former international president of SOS HELMUT KUTIN Children's Villages died in Bangkok Hospital, Thailand. Helmut Kotten served as international president of SOS Children's Villages for three decades between 1958 and 2012. He was appointed Honorary President of SOS Children's Villages from 2012 until 2023. Helmut Kotten worked on developing and developing child and youth care centers and had a distinctive imprint in developing projects and development for children and youth in SOS Children’s Villages. Helmut Kotten devoted his life to caring for children and youth, and his first achievement was establishing a children’s village in Vietnam in 1967.


It is known that the founder of the SOS Children's Villages organization is Mr. Hermann Gmeiner,

Hermann Gmeiner


who was born in Alber Schwenda in Austria on June 23, 1919. He was cared for and raised by his older sister due to the death of his mother when he was five years old. Hermann Gmeiner was able, with the help of his friends, to start forming the SOS Children's Villages. He came up with the idea of ​​the surrogate mother and creating a family by creating a family consisting of children and a mother who takes care of them and serves and raises them like a real mother. He was able to transfer the idea to many countries and convince many to help develop this idea, adopt it and make it successful. Hermann Gmeiner died at the age of 66, but his legacy is still present and everyone in many countries of the world is still working with his humanitarian approach and idea to this day.

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