Our donation of €25 per month per child contributes to covering the daily costs of these children and to their villages - this includes food, education, medical care and sports and play. Every store receives a box with information about their sponsor child and an address to correspond to. A lot of our colleagues love to be actively involved in this project and keep in touch with their sponsor child. In 2022, Action sponsored 1,999 SOS Children in Asia, Poland and Czech Republic.

This year we opened our 2000th store and to celebrate the occasion with SOS Children’s Villages, our CEO Hajir Hajji handed a cheque of €100,000 to Arian Buurman, CEO of SOS Children's Villages. The money was raised through the sale of big shoppers specially designed for reaching this milestone.  

Every country office donates €10,000 to SOS Children’s Villages projects in their country. Together with the local SOS initiatives, our total donation in 2022 amounted to € 689,700, benefiting a total of more than 12,500 children. 

• In the Netherlands, we support the youth employability project YouthCan! in Indonesia. A project to support young people to develop the skills they need to stand on their own two feet. 
• In Belgium, we funded the renovation of three houses from a SOS Children's Village in the south of Belgium.  
• In Germany, we support the housing for boys from the age of 11, who can no longer live at home due to a serious family crisis.  
• In France, we contributed to the ‘Young Adult Programme’ which prepares teenagers for their independence.  
• In Poland, we supported the family strengthening programme in Lublin. 
• In Austria, we supported the renovation of the SOS Schülerwohnen building in Graz, a temporary home to 12 children (boys and girls) aged of 10 years and older. Children live and stay at Schülerwohnen throughout the week, and go to school from there.