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Philanthropy

SOS Children Villages have their beginnings in a community founded in Austria's Tyrol region by local humanitarian Hermann Gmeiner, 29, whose enterprise will grow to have more than 225 villages in 85 countries on five continents to house and care for abandoned or orphaned children.

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