America News

WELCOME to FRIENDS OF KIDS FOR KIDS in AMERICA!

We were launched in the summer of 2007 to better enable supporters in the U.S. to raise awareness and funds for Kids for kids. We are happy to provide up to date information, leaflets, and collecting boxes to help you plan an event or lead an effort for Kids for Kids in your community.

Please email me on: Kathy@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

FRIENDS OF KIDS FOR KIDS IN AMERICA

Please let me know what you are doing to help children in Darfur by supporting Kids for Kids!

UPCOMING EVENTS

If you are planning an awareness raising debate or presentation on Darfur and would like to hear about LIFE BEYOND THE CAMPS please ask Kathy 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.

AMIRA WILL NOW HAVE A BLANKET TO CURL UP UNDER thanks to the big heart of an American lady ...............

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."

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

TOUR AMERICA 2008

NOTES FOR GOATS April 19 2008. Folks in the Corvallis, OR area attended NOTES FOR GOATS 2008 the 2nd annual benefit concert for Kids for Kids and raised even more urgently needed funds than in 2007! Visit www.notesforgoats.org for details.

Couldn't make it to the concert? Make a Donation OR have your business sponsor next year's event!

All proceeds go directly to Kids for Kids.

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 ALL OVER THE WORLD 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

ONGOING PROJECTS

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.

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.

Check it out at www.playfulpancakes.com

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.

Wassail 2007 We had a wonderful surprise when contacted by Darrey Mayers of the Austin, TX - based quinted MUNDI. They donated the proceeds from their Solstice Christmas Celebration, Wassail 2007 - an evening of stories, carols, magic, mummers and morris dancers - to Kids for Kids!

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