Families living in remote villages are subsistence farmers, living off whatever they can grow from the land. Crops have not been planted due to the violence, and after a failed crop last year, families were already malnourished before the start of the conflict in April 2023. Many children are surviving on one scant meal a day whilst many adults have just one meal every two to three days. Worryingly this is often just a form of porridge called assida which is carbohydrate only, resulting in serious malnourishment.

Children across Darfur are desperately in need of protein, minerals and vitamins.

Without these essential nutrients, children face stunted growth, bone, teeth, hair and even brain damage.

Our Kids Kitchen Kits, launched this week, include lentils, ground nuts and cooking oil, to provide essential proteins and minerals for healthy growth.

Patricia Parker OBE says, “We were already worried about families before the conflict started in April 2023. We are hopeful that, thanks to our Steering Committee – all volunteers in Darfur, determined to help their own people – we will be able to distribute Kids Kitchen Kits to more of our villages, providing immediate food staples, including desperately needed protein, to help children survive. We need to act quickly to get children and their families the help that they desperately need.”

The aim currently is to provide one Kitchen Kit to every family with children under 5 in each of our villages.

Please can you help us transform children’s health and ensure children receive vital nutrition?

By donating £25 (with today’s rate of inflation) you will give a Kids Kitchen Kits to a family with children under 5.

Can you help us engage with young people? Every week we head out from the youth centre and engage with young people where ever they are. It's a great way to get useful services out to young people that might not know about them and offer support where it's needed. We like to offer young people a hot chocolate and biscuit while they chat to us and some really look forward to seeing us. Please help us by donating to buy this offering and help us engage with young people!

We are running a special campaign for our Neonatal parents. We know how difficult it is to have a baby in special care. We have devised a carry cot full of items to help spend precious moments with the new baby. 
the carry cot and contents have a retail price of over £150, but we are lucky enough to be able to supply and deliver them for £50. 
in sponsoring a carry cot we can add your details, so that your item goes to a recipient in one of our partnered hospitals. We are limited to just 60 carry cots which will be sent to one of the following hospitals: 

NorthamptonGeneral, Kettering General, Milton Keynes University Hospital and Norwich and Norfolk Hospital. 

During the present Covid crisis we have extended our objectives to include services for those who have lost during the coronavirus pandemic.  

When the Covid – 19 crisis began to emerge we grew very concerned that families who lost during this time would have not had the “non World” bereavement experience and reflected on how this would be affecting those concerned and their mental health. To lose a loved one and not be able to visit them in their last moments, see them after they had died and at times not been able to attend their funerals leaves a huge gap and perhaps lack of acceptance and form of reality and this would have effects on a person’s emotional well-being. With that in mind we began the process to adapt to the current crisis and try to help.

We run many mindfulness sessions at Autism Together and our Raby site would like to start doing these during the good weather out on our fields with nature and our goats and alpaccas roaming around. By being portable mats we can take them to support people directly in their homes or an area of their choosing such as our woodlands or wooden chalets. 

If leprosy is suspected, the sooner a diagnosis happens, the better, as then the patient can begin treatment as soon as possible. This reduces the risk of them suffering from long term health issues caused by this disease such as losing fingers or toes, or other disfigurements. 

If a person who has been treated with leprosy is provided with a cow or goat, then they can sell their milk and gain a reasonable income. This independence and income is vital to help them rebuild their lives after treatment, and to sustain themselves for the future.