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DECEMBER 2009

Drought is causing hardship already in Darfur - yet the world is ignoring the conditions in which children are living. The message from Founder of Kids for Kids Patricia Parker: "Don't wait until it is too late - do something right now!"

Kids for Kids is calling for help to provide water - handpumps and repairs to handpumps standing idle because villagers do not have the money for spare parts - and for donkeys. "If you have a donkey you can fetch twice as much water, twice as quickly, and travel twice as far" is the message from Patricia.

FEBRUARY 2009

The Trustees of KIDS FOR KIDS heard recently that implementing agents they had commissioned to install handpumps for remote villages, had been expelled from Sudan for breaking the law. "This is a tragedy, not only for us, but for the countless children these pumps should be helping." said Chairman of Trustees, Patricia Parker. "Thankfully TNM reported that they had repaired 30 pumps for us before they left Darfur, and I am awaiting their final report. This is a blow for all INGOs in Sudan."

27th February 2009

NEW FILM A HIT - HOPE IN A TIME OF CONFLICT is the message
1 December 2008

Film makers MayaVision were given unprecedented access to the villages of Darfur and they have presented KIDS FOR KIDS with a film must be seen the world over!   It provides footage of life in the villages which has never been seen before.  Journalists who have managed to get to Darfur has only shown life in the camps.  They stay for 2 or 3 days and leave.  This film shows real life continuing - but at a cost. 

For example, since the conflict almost all health care has vanished from beyond El Fasher, where there is a hospital, albeit poorly equipped and in need of immense help.  But in the villages, people struggle to care for their children with no assistance.  They sell essentials to buy medicines for illnesses that have not been properly diagnosed.

HOPE IN A TIME OF CONFLICT shows how KIDS FOR KIDS is helping villagers in the ways they know work.  That is the key - to give the help that is needed, not what people in the west think is suitable.  By helping people to help themselves KIDS FOR KIDS villages are surviving.  This film shows how.

See it!