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 * Name of country || South Africa ||
 * Population size || 44,000,000 ||
 * Per capita GDP || $11,110 ||
 * Main exports || gold, diamonds, platinum, other metals and minerals, machinery and equipment ||
 * Main imports || machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, scientific instruments, foodstuffs ||
 * Resources || gold, diamonds, platinum ||
 * Main ethnic groups || black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5% ||
 * Primary religions || Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, Muslim 1.5%, other Christian 36%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1% ||
 * Unemployment rate || 24.3% ||
 * Infant mortality rate || 55/1000 ||
 * Life expectancy || 50 (male) 52 (female) ||
 * Literacy rate || 84% male 81% female ||
 * Human Development Index (HDI) || 0.670 (medium) **The Human Development Index (HDI**) is an index used to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies to determine whether a country is a [|developed], [|developing, or underdeveloped country]. ||

After researching this country, I have found that compared to other African countries, it is doing pretty good but overall it could use help in some areas. It's life expectancy is above average for countries in Africa but it is still a developing country. It has a high unemployment rate so more jobs are needed. South Africa's numbers are high for its continent but are lower than many countries in Europe and countries like the United States. Although South Africa is a developed country, it is still developing in that it is improving its economy and health of it's people.

1. How long has the organization been in existence? The SOS Children's Villages were founded in 1949. It has been in existance for 60 years.

2. Who founded it? An Austrian man named Hermann Gmeiner.

3. Where is it headquartered? One of the headquarters is in Chicago, IL.

4. What is its purpose? SOS is committed to maintaining supportive and healthy environments that reduce the vulnerability of children and their care-givers to HIV infection. SOS creates and sustains programs that enable children orphaned by AIDS to grow up in a caring family, and provide them with equal access to education and essential services.

5. Does it provide assistance just to Africa, or is it active around the world? It is active around the world.

6. Which problem(s) is it addressing in Africa? Children that have been abondoned or whose parents have died and have no one to care for them.

7. Does it provide assistance to just one or several countries in Africa? It provides assistance to several countries in Africa.

8. How does the organization raise money for its efforts? By collecting donations and people who "sponser" some of the children.

9. What is your organization's budget? $ 5,657,647

10. How much of the money it collects for Africa is used for overhead (expenses)? $1,655,000

11. Have the reviews of your organization's efforts been favorable or critical, i.e., what kind of a "report card" has it been getting? Critics have positive comments about this organization due to the mass number of children it helps around the world.

12. How would you rate your organization's efforts? Has it done "a good job?" I think it has done a good job by helping such a variety of children in different villages but I think it could use less money for the organization.

13. Do you think donating money to your organization is worthwhile? I do think it is because the facts show that it is being productive with it's money and is active in helping kids. The more money it has the more it can supply kids in need.