America News

WELCOME to FRIENDS OF KIDS FOR KIDS in AMERICA!

The US Friends of Kids for Kids was launched in the summer of 2007 to better enable supporters in the U.S. to raise awareness and funds for Kids for Kids, thanks to Kathy Donaldson. BETH JORDAN now runs the US Friends and is keen to hear from you! She is a volunteer as are many of the key workers for Kids for Kids - thus ensuring the maximum possible goes directly to help the children in Darfur!

If you would like to learn more about how Friends in the US can help childrern in Darfur, please contact Beth at: beth.us@kidsforkids.org.uk

LATEST NEWS: Patricia Parker MBE, Founder of Kids for Kids and Trustee Liz Owen are coming to America in March 2012 at the invitation of the Montessori Schools' Annual Conference, which this year is in San Francisco. Chandra, the inspirational Montessori teacher and trainer, has facilitated this wonderful opportunity. Kids for Kids' philosophy mirrors the aims of Montessori teaching.

We are very excited to be visiting St Gabriel's School - the pupils here, especially Makayla and her friends, have been raising many dollars every year and making a massive difference to children their own age in Darfur.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET THE TRUSTEES whilst we are in America? We are hoping to visit New York, and possibly Florida but would be happy to visit you if we can justify the visit financially! This is a rare and exciting opportunity to hear at first hand what life is like outside the camps, in the villages of Darfur. The risk of kidnap has prevented anyone visiting the area for many months.

Kids for Kids - Celebrates Ten Years of Helping Children - Press release US FINAL

We are asking everyone to HAVE A PARTY to celebrate our 10th Birthday - it would be great if you could join in - it doesn't matter how small (or large!) it is! We would love to hear from you!

Or invite 3 friends for coffee - and give a goat to a child in Darfur!

SMALLEST COFFEE MORNING EVER US

LATEST NEWS:

Founder of Kids for Kids Patricia Parker MBE has been invited to speak at the Annual Montessori Schools' Conference in March 2012 in San Francisco, thanks to Chandra Fernando who prepared such an excellent proposal! If you would like Patricia to make a personal Presentation to you, wherever you are in the States, or to discuss ways in which you can help children in Darfur through life changing sustainable projects, please contact patricia@kidsforkids.org.uk This is a rare opportunity to meet the Founder of this very special, effective and dynamic not-for-profit.

Beth is a keen and inspirational speaker whom you might like to invite to speak to your school or church or group. She will be able to show you the latest photographs of what we are doing to help children in villages in Darfur? These are exclusive photographs taken by our Chairman Patricia Parker on her frequent visits to check on our projects.

If you would like help to plan an event or lead an effort for Kids for Kids in your community - you might like to see the KIDS FOR KIDS FILM - HOPE IN A TIME OF CONFLICT - which shows rare footage of village life, beyond the camps? The film lasts 20 minutes (there is also a 3 min version).

Please email Beth on: beth.US@kidsforkids.org.uk

U.S. taxpayers can now make tax-deductible donations to the Friends of Kids for Kids Fund at CAF America using the form on the U.S. Gift List.

Please contact Beth to ask for the latest GIFT LIST (email above)

CELEBRATE YOUR SPECIAL OCCASION - that special BIRTHDAY, MOTHER'S DAY, THANKSGIVING & CHRISTMAS - CELEBRATE YOUR LOVED ONE'S SPECIAL OCCASION - AND BRING LASTING CHANGE TO A CHILD!

We will be happy to send a Gift Certificate anywhere in the world! Please email Beth with the details of the Special Event you would like to commemorate, including the name/s of the recipients and of course, your names please! She will do the rest!Beth.US@kidsforkids.org.uk

Can you give a Donkey to celebrate your special day? There is no transport in Darfur - no roads - no electricity in the villages. Nights are dark and long. Children sleep without beds or blankets. If a child is sick there is no transport - without a donkey.

A goat means a child has milk to drink.

A blanket means a child does not get life threatening chest infections.

UNICEF says that "Every child in every village is malnourished". I cannot bear to think of a child going to bed each night hungry. Your special day could change a child's life forever.

Please send for the Gift List or read here to see how villagers say these simple things save their children's lives.

We need your help please!

WOULD YOU LIKE TO VOLUNTEER TO HELP US PLEASE? We do not advertise and rely on our friends spreading the word - so that every dollar possible can go to buy goats and donkeys! - please let us know if you can help in your area!

PLANNING AN EVENT?

If you are planning an awareness raising debate or presentation on Darfur and would like to hear about LIFE BEYOND THE CAMPS please ask Beth if there is a speaker available in your area. We now have volunteers who would be happy to come and show unique pictures and footage of what life is like for families who are living out of sight of the world's media in Darfur in the villages - images never seen outside Sudan.. Chairman, Patricia Parker and Trustee Alastair King-Smith, visit Darfur regularly and their photographs and video footage gives a detailed and informed view.

SOME OF THE THINGS PEOPLE IN AMERICA HAVE DONE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE .....

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 2011

SPECIAL FRIENDS the staff and children of ST GABRIEL'S SCHOOL are continuing to raise funds for children their own age in remote villages in Darfur. This year Makayla and her friends have done it again - they are a brilliant group! Enjoy a Cake Bake, invite your friends, and, like

Makayla's friends know you will make a lasting change to a child's life!

Thank you kids! You really are kids FOR kids!

KIDS FOR KIDS on air in the States!

TV BOSS MAKES FILM OF CHILDREN THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS FORGOTTEN.

Peter Markham, of Silver Point Capital, made two short films to be shown on five different TV channels. Watch

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It's great to have the support of this wonderful family we first met at Southbank International School in London!

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 2009

Owen (6) lead the way in the September 2009 Walk for Water to Prospect Park. he and his 6 year old friends at THE BERKELEY CAROL SCHOOL collected water on their walk and carried it back . Patricia Parker, Chairman Kids for Kids, told them how children in Darfur are walking up to 7 hours to reach water and to carry it back to their families. The Brooklyn Walk for Water has already raised over $1200 dollars.

If 6 years told can make such a difference - what can you do?

HOW ONE AMERICAN WOMAN WITH A BIG HEART LAUNCHED OUR BLANKET APPEAL!

AMIRA WILL NOW HAVE A BLANKET TO CURL UP UNDER thanks to Debbie ...............

It is bitterly cold at night in the desert, especially during the winter months in Darfur, yet many families have no blankets, or bedding of any kind.

When DEBBIE JURAN, of RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT, heard this, she immediately made a donation that has enabled KIDS FOR KIDS to give 2 blankets and a mosquito nets to over 300 families - but Debbie is calling for more blankets for Amira and her small friends. "When children don't have enough food to eat they get chest infections very easily. I could not bear to think of a child like Amira going to sleep at night in just her little dress - with nothing to keep her warm. I had to do something."

Please can you give 2 blankets & a mosquito net - just $63 - not much when you realise what this means to Amira - and her mother.

CONCERT RAISES HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS - YOUNGEST PERFORMER JUST 6 YEARS OLD!

The Second NOTES FOR GOATS concert in Corvallis, Oregon raised even more urgently needed funds than ever! Yet children as young as 6 were the performers! Children are showing us all what a difference even the very young can make. To See what they are doing www.notesforgoats.org for details.

Kathy and her friends and family first hosted Chairman Patricia Parker in Oregon in June 2007 and put on the first NOTES FOR GOATS concert, the inspiration of young CASSIDY DONALDSON then 8, which raised over $5000. This year's concert raised even more funds to help children Cassidy's age in villages in Darfur! Huge thanks to Cassidy, Kathy, Lois, Beth, Julie - not to mention Jeremy and Jack - and to all the wonderful sponsors of the

SECOND NOTES FOR GOATS BENEFIT CONCERT.

KIDS FOR KIDS is challenging schools IN AMERICA to put on their own NOTES FOR GOATS!

Rumour has it that MONTESSORI children in Virginia, thanks to CHANDRA, just might have a surprise for us too!

Chandra has written an article on us - peaceseedconnection 8

With the purchase of a T-shirt or Bracelet from www.eyesurfforpeace.com you are contributing to the fight for a better way of life, giving hope fr the future of children and families in Darfur, thanks to Elyse and Maxwell Richman (aged 9) of Westhampton Beach, New York. A percentage of ever item sold is given to Kids for Kids.

CASSIDY (9) HAS RAISED OVER 300 GOATS FOR CHILDREN - CAN YOU DO AS WELL! Buy a Cat Toy - Save a Life is the slogan of Playful Pancakes, a business started and run by now 9-year-old Cassidy and her friends in Coravallis, Oregon. They make catnip-filled toys for cats out of scraps of leather from a local shoe factory, and sell them for the price of a goat, and donate 100% of sales to Kids for Kids.

GREAT IDEA AND GREAT PROMOTION!

Importers of wine VINEYARD BRANDS have put together a first for KIDS FOR KIDS, thanks to Val Markus of Seattle, Washington.

GOATS DO ROAM is a delicious wine from South Africa - and now it helps Kids for Kids

Val Markus says "look for display in Seattle now - more to follow"

Following Val's lead, Sheilah Reynolds ran a similar program in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. We are delighted that Val is continuing this promotion again this year.

THANK YOU VAL!

Thank you to everyone for their time and talents to help families in Darfur!