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and

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. "Sol En Si" has a team of 30 full-time employees and professionals and hundreds of volunteers who provide help in two service centers in

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(near Paris) and in

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and in hundreds of homes, providing individualised care for the children in their family environment. Help includes providing of medical aid, social aid, beds, food and clothing, individualised accompaniment, sponsoring, support groups, organized vacations. Sol En Si also has international operations outside France, providing schooling of children orphaned because of AIDS in

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in addition to various other AIDS/HIV charity projects mainly on the African continent.

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