Kids for Kids
Supporting projects which
are long lasting, self sustaining and community led
Supporting projects which
are long lasting, self sustaining and community led
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Why Kids for Kids Starting KIDS FOR KIDS How We Work KIDS FOR KIDS was launched in Khartoum, Sudan on 8th March 2001 - just three days after Patricia Parker MBE had returned from Darfur and seen for herself the conditions in which children were living. “My son, Alastair and I met a little 9 year old lad in the middle of the desert, who was walking 7 hours to reach water and then carry it back to his family. This is intolerable for anyone, and unacceptable for a child - and worse, when you realise that not only were the aid agencies there, they knew and were doing nothing about it. Someone had to.”
 Patricia, who founded KIDS FOR KIDS, now works full time to raise awareness of the problems facing children in Sudan, and showing how their lives can be improved in simple yet effective ways. Details of all that is being done by KIDS FOR KIDS in Darfur, and of the fund raising events that have been organised to help, can be found on the LATEST NEWS page of the web site and in PATRICIA’S DIARY (read Patricia's BLOG). She is hoping people will be inspired to help, not just in the UK but all over the world, to arrange similar events."If we can tell people about the conditions in which children are being forced to live - and show the way to a solution - to everyone, from the highest in Government to the smallest child at school, as we are trying to do in England - then we will be able to transform people's lives" she said.
 KIDS FOR KIDS, which is celebrating its Fifth Birthday, is currently helping 100,000 people who are struggling to stay in their homes. No other organisation has been helping villagers – despite 3½ million people still living in remote areas. “The poor families who have been forced out of their homes and who have been living in the plastic nightmare camps in Darfur will have nothing to return to if the remaining villages are not maintained. Without these there can be no future for Darfur” is Patricia’s bleak warning.
 But not so bleak – during a recent visit Alastair and Patricia were told by villagers who had travelled many miles (one group walked 97 kms, risking attack) that the help KIDS FOR KIDS was giving them was
INDISPENSABLE.
“Please tell the children of the world not to forget us” they said.
THE FUTURE
We now have 2 Tree Nurseries at Lawabid and Kourma and have cofunded a Baobab project to reintroduce the Baobab tree to North Darfur and Kordofan. Baobab seedling just 5 months old planted at Abou Shouk camp for internally displaced people. This area now looks like a desert, people were so desperate for firewood when they first arrived three years ago, they cut down all the trees and even dug up the roots. Our new young Baobab seedlings however are highly valued and are already transforming the area. It is an incredible thought that, when these families eventually return home they will leave behind them these young trees. The first step towards recreating the destroyed environment. |
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
There are now 21 KIDS FOR KIDS VILLAGES 100,000 villagers benefiting from our projects in our first five years.
In our most recent Project - 2005/2006
We have trained committees in 10 new villages.
We have given the go ahead for 30 new handpumps, and 4 were installed earlier this year. We have provided 650 billy goats and 3,264 nanny goats to new families. We have replaced 35 goats where there have been problems and lent 11 more to families who did not fit our normal selection criteria. 573 donkeys have gone to new homes and 22 crossbred donkeys (which are larger and faster) are now helping our new Primary Health Care Workers reach their patients and 16 crossbred donkeys were presented to our new midwives. Each village has a paravet and veterinary drugs, plus an Animal Loan Committee to run the fund, and a programme of vaccinating 5,317 goats is nearing completion We have trained 22 farmers in terrace building to extend the planting time and provided: • 10 donkey drawn ambulances • 100 donkey ploughs • watermelon • sweet melon • cow pea • groundnut and sesame seeds • 10 ropes • 230 spades • 230 pickaxes • 230 hoes • 8 blackboards • 1,400 exercise books Health Care
We have trained a further 16 Village Midwives who had delivered 140 healthy babies in their villages by October 2006
For the first time we trained Primary Health Care Workers. 22 are now working in remote areas. We also provided a Sterilising Unit for the rural hospital at Mallit. |
 KIDS FOR KIDS is committed to funding a minimum of 150,000, for each of the next three years, to help families stay in their villages. Many families which were already facing great hardship, are hosting people made homeless because of the conflict. CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL is the first to help these families. "I cannot thank the Trustees enough" said Patricia "This support means a great deal - please can you help us give more families a chance?"
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