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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

Drought in Darfur
29 December 2009

Drought in Darfur has already emptied the hafirs.   People are digging in dried river beds but the water table had already dropped 10 metres in November, according to Osman Kubir, Wali of North Darfur.   Kids for Kids was founded because of the extreme hardship children were facing in 2001 - even children as young as 9 were  struggling to carry heavy jerry cans across the desert.  Drought now is already as bad as it was in March 2001. If surface water has vanished now how will people in the villages survive?  The conflict has taken a heavy toll in the remote villages of Darfur yet the international community continues to concentrate solely on the camps.  Kids for Kids is calling for help for villagers now if children are not to die in 2010.  This is a stark message as we enter the new year.