Bethlehem SOS Mothers receive prestigious award

Bethlehem - Ma'an - The president of SOS-Kinderdorf International, Mr Helmut Kutin, presented five Bethlehem SOS Mothers on Friday with 'Rings of Commitment' in honour of their ten plus years of service to the care of orphaned and abandoned children.

Those who received the prestigious award were Hussinya Abu Jarad, Fadia Damiree, Abeer Desouqi, Nabeel Tieti and Insherah Sabanh. Each of these women have spent more than ten years of their lives as live-in house mother to groups of orphaned children.

The Governor of Bethlehem, Salah At-Ta'mari, Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh, British Consular General, Richard Makepeace, Deputy Head of Mission of the Austrian Representative Office, Ronald Treitler .

SOS is an international organisation dedicated to the care of orphaned and abandoned children across the world present in 132 countries with over 450 Children's Villages. SOS Bethlehem was established in 1966 and was the first of its kind in the Middle East. Today SOS has projects all over Palestine offering essential services to Palestinian children.