In Darfur, Goats save lives!  Goat’s milk stops children from being malnourished, and mothers can sell surplus milk and yoghurt at market to earn what is often her first ever income. Donate a goat today!

Goats save lives. Kids for Kids lends 5 goats to a family for immediate milk for starving babies and malnourished children. We train the family to look after them, and the little flock grows. What is so fantastic, is that as the flock increases, the goats provide an income for essentials like food, clothes, healthcare and education. Of course the availability of milk and yoghurt in the village benefits the wider community too. After 2 years the family passes on 5 healthy goats to the next family and the miracle continues.

There is no health care in the villages of Darfur. Young girls getting married in remote villages face childbirth with no trained assistance. In some villages there may be a Traditional Birth Attender (TBA) – someone who has ‘survived childbirth’. She will have had no medical training. If there is obstructed birth, ‘rope delivery’ is the only possible help, with subsequent damage to the baby – if it survives. It costs Kids for Kids £2,000 to train a Village Midwife and to provide her with a smart white tobe (sari uniform) and leather sandals, plus providing her with medical equipment. We also provide a fast and strong crossbred donkey so she can travel more easily between the villages, plus a solar lantern so that mothers will not give birth by the flickering light of a fire. There is no electricity in villages.

First aid workers are a lifeline for villagers with no other access to healthcare. 

A small cut can soon become a debilitating injury if an infection goes untreated. 

The training they receive includes hygiene and the care of broken limbs. 

First Aid Workers are also trained to take part in vaccination programmes to prevent diseases. 

They are in charge of the Revolving Drug Programme we help them to establish, ensuring that medicine is available in all our Kids for Kids’ villages.

Donate the gift of education and send a child who has never been to school before to start his/her journey.  Education helps children to escape poverty and build a future for themselves. 98% of mothers in Darfur are illiterate – they need help to teach their children. £90 will provide education for a child for one year.

Water is the gift of life. Children and families often have to walk barefoot for miles in the hot desert sun to reach their nearest water supply.

Can you imagine what they have to go through for every drop of water?

Instead of walking for hours in the scorching heat every day for water, children can go to school and mothers can work to earn an income for the family - just by having a handpump in their village.

In some villages, people have even managed to grow vegetables for the first time.

There is nothing that upsets us more than to see a broken handpump sitting idle. 

Imagine the sheer frustration of knowing there is water right there in your village – but not being able to fix the pump, and having to walk miles each day to fetch water. 

Kids for Kids has emergency funds set aside for cases like these, to quickly get broken pumps working again. 

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.