About SOS Village Paraguay
What this page knows about the organization comes from its own official site. What we don't know — and won't make up — is marked as such.
The organization in a nutshell
Aldeas Infantiles SOS Paraguay (RUC 80016122) is a non-profit civil association registered in Paraguay and an autonomous member of SOS Children's Villages International. The global organization has been working since 1949 — present today in more than 130 countries — and Paraguay has operated as a country programme for more than five decades. The organization publishes that trajectory on its official site; this site adds nothing new.
The care model they use is family-style residential care: small groups of children live in houses with a long-term caregiver, with food, education, health care and daily support. The organization publishes that it serves more than a thousand children and adolescents per year in Paraguay — that figure comes from their own institutional communications and we repeat it here as data, not as a promise of our own.
The public side, in numbers
Other figures — annual budget, staff count, federation transfers — are published by the organization, but we haven't downloaded them from official sources in the format needed to repeat them here. If you need that data, the shortest path is to visit the official site or write to them directly.
Five villages plus a community programme
Listed as their own on the official site.
Asunción
Location of the village in Zeballos Cué, within the metropolitan area. Also houses the national office.
Luque
Second operating village, also in the central area of the country.
San Ignacio
Village in the department of Misiones, in the south-central region of the country.
Hohenau
Village in Itapúa, in southern Paraguay, in an agro-industrial growth area.
Belén
The most recent of the five operating villages, in the north, in the department of Concepción.
Ojoykére programme
Community-based prevention programme launched in 2024, aimed at vulnerable neighbourhoods in the metropolitan area. Not a residential village; it complements the network.
What we don't know
The organization publishes some information in certain formats but not in others. We list it here so you know what cannot be inferred from this site:
- Named composition of the Board of Directors and the National Safeguarding Committee (not public online).
- Breakdown of the annual budget by programme or by village.
- Amount of transfers the global Federation sends to Paraguay each year.
- Number of paid and volunteer staff on the books.
- Concrete frequency and metrics of their campaigns (except for the two annual campaigns that do have dates: Regalamos Sonrisas with Tupi in August, and Convertí tu vuelto en sonrisas running year-round at partner supermarkets).
Each of those points has an official channel to inquire through. We don't make up answers here.
📌 About us and this site
This site is maintained by independent volunteers. We built it to make it easier to find the official site, its reports and its contact channels. We are not the organization, we don't represent it, and we don't process donations or sponsorships.