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.

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.

Someone who has been treated for leprosy will wish to secure their future by working again, but are often unable to return to their previous physical labour. The gift of a small business means that they can generate their own income, providing for both themselves and their family. 

We provide large A4 bespoke, personalised, Memory boxes of exceptional quality to help bereaved children remember someone who has died. When you lose a child there is often very little support for the bereaved sibling. The Memory boxes are a very simple, but effective way of helping a sibling remember their brother or sister and preserve their very precious and personal memories. The Child has full control over the design process and choosesa background theme and colour for their memory boxes. The photos are also chosen by the children and when the design has been aproved by the child it is digitally printed and heat sealed onto the Memory box. The designing of the Memory boxes is often used as a therapy by many bereavement services across the UK and every child in the family designs and receives their own Memory box so that the box belongs to them and only them.

​We do not charge for our service as we are fully self funded.

​Please note: Our large A4 wooden Memory boxes and bears are only supplied  to bereaved children under the age of 25yrs.. 

​Our Memory Boxes are supplied to families through bereavement service referrals; we do not sell boxes directly.

A Heart Heroes Hug- contains arts/crafts, goodies and activities to send to make a Heart child smile who may be isolating, recovering from an operation or is about to have an operation.

Heart Heroes work with children and their families living with heart conditions. We aim to provide services for these children, to help them meet others who are in similar situations and allow their family to talk to other families going through related experiences. At Heart Heroes we: Support children with heart diseases aged 0 – 16. Organise events and provide socialising opportunities for children to attend. We aim to introduce families with similar experiences so that they can support each other.

It can be very scary when in hospital, purchase a care package for a cardiac family in Birmingham Childrens Hospital 

The child will receive a bravery certificatewith the date of their open heart surgery and a build bear to keep, there will also be various items for the child and parents this will vary depending on the age of the child.

the picture is for a 1 week old baby girl