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CLINTON CONNECTION

https://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/news/world-famous-celebrities-on-the-golf-course-for-ch

World famous celebrities on the golf course for charities

05/07/2002 - SOS Children's Villages Sweden is the major beneficiary of a big celebrity event being held this summer where former president Bill Clinton will be in the spotlight.

On 6 - 7 July, Bill Clinton will be in Stockholm to hold a seminar and to play golf. The former president will take part in a two-day golf tournament with a number of well-known sport and movie stars, including ski stars Ingemar Stenmark, Alberto Tomba and Franz Klammer, footballer Henrik Larsson, hockey ace Peter Forsberg, singer Alice Cooper and movie star Stacey Keach. Sven Göran Eriksson, manager of the England football team, will hand out the prizes. The event is expected to draw a big audience and all money raised from the entrance fees will go to charities, with SOS Children's Villages Sweden as the major beneficiary.

BILL CLINTON & BUSH IN HAITI

SOS Children's Villages Playing Prominent Role in Helping Haiti's Children

Even before the January earthquake, many Haitian families lived in dire poverty that left them unable to care for their children. SOS Children's Villages has been providing loving homes to orphaned and abandoned Haitian children for three decades.

SOS's work in Haiti has earned the group great trust on the ground. SOS-Haiti made news on January 30, when the Haitian government handed to SOS's Santo Children's Village 33 children for safekeeping. These were the children whom a U.S. church group, claiming the boys and girls were orphans, had attempted to take out of the country without official approval.

In the wake of natural disaster, SOS-Santo is providing shelter, food, and medical care to 500 children. Orphaned or separated from their parents, the children are deeply traumatized by the death and destruction they saw all around them. SOS-Santo has arranged for psychologists to work regularly with the children. Teenagers living in the SOS Children's Villages are helping their younger SOS brothers and sisters deal with emotional loss through activities like singing, dancing, and painting.

Reuniting and Strengthening Families are SOS Priorities

SOS believes that children belong with their biological families whenever possible. SOS-Haiti has been taking great efforts to reunite the children under its care with their parents. Reunification has already taken place for most of the 33 children who had been in the news; none of them are orphans. When families are unable to adequately care for their children, SOS gives them financial and other support to do so.

At present, SOS is helping the wider Haitian community by distributing food and other necessities to vulnerable families through 89 distribution points. In total, SOS is supporting 13,000 Haitian children with food, water, and medical attention.

NEIL GHOSH

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

SOS Children's Villages - USA Leadership

https://www.sos-usa.org/about-sos/our-team

Neil Ghosh is Chief Executive Officer of SOS Children's Villages - USA, part of the world’s largest organization building loving, stable families for orphaned and abandoned children in 135 countries around the world. Neil's experience and expertise span the nonprofit, government, and private sectors. Neil has successfully launched and grown several nonprofit and for-profit operations from the ground up and has built internal structures, teams, business models, and strategies to reach organizational goals.

Neil was most recently Executive Vice President of Global Fund for Children where he led team during multiple leadership transitions and turned around organization, resulting in greater financial sustainability and more efficient operations. Prior to that, he served for nine years as CEO of SNV USA (affiliate of Netherlands Development Organization), which addresses systemic poverty in 35 countries. Since SNV USA's founding in 2007, the organization has raised more than $120 million from North American donors and partners. He has launched partnerships with USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Master Card Foundation, Ford Foundation, Dubai Cares and IADB. Neil also founded Global Youth Initiative, which was born from a conversation between Neil and Mother Teresa in Kolkata, India and later received support from Dalai Lama, President Shimon Peres and many global leaders. GYI's approach was recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative.

Neil previously founded GlobeTrade Network, a management consultancy, and has consulted for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Deloitte, Citibank and others. Earlier he was Regional Manager for the Australian Trade Commission.

Neil grew up in Kolkata, India, and started a grassroots organization to empower local children and youth when he was fourteen. His childhood experiences in Kolkata spurred his involvement in the international development field, after spending more than a decade in the private sector and government agencies.

Neil is a Certified Management Consultant with an MBA in international business and an MS in management information systems. He has been featured in print, broadcast, and online media in the United States and abroad, including CNN, Devex, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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