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21 April 2010

At last - Dr Salim Ahmed Salim is working for Kids for Kids!   This is the best news all year - and it will get better!  Dr Salim is one of the few veterinary doctors in Darfur.   He has been working on our projects for th ...

Despite major, and exciting, changes at Kids for Kids (more later!) I have been conducting a One Woman Letter writing campaign.   Somewhere, somehow, someone will surely sit up and take notice of the children who are starving in Darfur.& ...

Since returning home from Darfur I have been working harder than I dreamt it possible - and dreaming is something I am not enjoying at the moment.  The children I saw in Darfur were such a tragic sight.  You see pictures on television, y ...

<p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">Sally and I have had such fun this morning (it has been a great week - we both have Birthdays and they have been super!).   WE HAVE SET UP TWITTER!</p>Please have a go at 'following us' - I do my best to ...

Have you read USAID's report following the harvest assessment in December 2009?   It fills me with despair.   They say that 26% of the harvest <i>has succeeded, </i>compared to the harvest in 2008/2009.   But this doe ...

I came to Pakistan for Christmas and New Year to be with Alastair who is working for the British High Commission in Islamabad, but my thoughts are in Darfur as we approach the new year.  Signs of drought were already so pitifully obvious when ...

Last night was utterly beautiful - it was our Candlelit Christmas Concert and St Margaret's, Westminster Abbey, was full of friends of Kids for Kids.   It was very special to be able to welcome the Ambassadors from the Sudan Embassy, wit ...

In El Fasher this week I saw for myself the devastating affect of the failure of the rain in East Africa.   Hafirs are already dry, surface water has dried up and the water table has already dropped over 10 metres.  These are the appal ...

Starvation is the word that stands out stark in the meetings we have been  holding in Khartoum before going to El Fasher onFriday.  The new of the drought in Darfur was not exaggerated when reported to me in  England.   OUr j ...

We are booked  to go to Sudan again at last. Much has happened since our last visit in June and I am keen to see how our projects are fairing.  We have not been sent as much news as usual from Darfur, nor have I been able to speak to the ...